Will Burns

The Paper Lantern (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don't make enough of' MAX PORTER

'Hugely affecting and timely' LUKE TURNER

'A boldly struck chord, one that contains many of the dissonances, but also the harmonies, found in England today' CHRIS POWER

In THE PAPER LANTERN, a single speaker charts and interrogates the shifts in mood and understanding that have defined a surreal, transformative period in both his own history and that of the surrounding area. Set in a shuttered pub - The Paper Lantern - in a village in the very middle of the country adjacent to the Chequers estate, the narrator embarks on a series of walks in the Chiltern Hills, which become the landscape for evocations of a past scarred with trauma and a present lacking compass. From local raves in secret valleys and the history of landmarks such as Halton House, to the fallout of the lockdown period, climate change and capitalism, THE PAPER LANTERN creates a tangible, lived-in, complicated rendering of a place.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474622042
• Artikelnr.: 59972128

Autorenporträt

Will Burns is a poet and writer based in Buckinghamshire. He began publishing his poetry in 2014 when he was named a Faber & Faber New Poet, and since then he has also published poetry pamphlets with Clutag Press, Rough Trade Books and his first full collection, COUNTRY MUSIC, with Offord Road Books in 2020, which was Book of the Week in the London Review Bookshop. Will is a long-time contributor to the online nature-writing journal Caught by the River, and his work has been discussed in the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review and the Independent.