
Blood Feather
by Patrick McGuinness
Title:
Blood Feather
Author:
Patrick McGuinness
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
80 pages
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13:
9780224098311
EAN:
9780224098311
Publication Date:
04/05/2023
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
220
Dimensions (mm):
131 x 197 x 13
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves''This is McGuinness''s best collection by far, and stands out from the crowd''SUNDAY TIMESIn Blood Feather, a book of doubling and displacement, we see time in a new way: the past, personal and collective, lingering as an ever-present ghost - while lost beyond recall.The first section, ''Squeeze the Day'' - a series of deeply moving poems about the author''s mother, displaced between languages - investigates her illness and death; how being bilingual is like having a double, a second self; how each self haunts the other. ''The Noises Things Make When They Leave'' elegises today''s post-industrial landscapes, their people and professions: sidelined by literature, bypassed by globalisation. The final sequence, ''After the Flood'', links the book''s themes, seeking a way of seeing things for the first time and the last time simultaneously. Exploring the gaps between languages and between our selves in language, Patrick McGuinness dreams of a new tense in which the world''s losses are redeemed:It''s the anniversary of my mother''s death,and it''s my mother''s birthday -the day she short-circuited the tenses,made the current flow both ways.A clear-sighted, intimate new poetry collection from the prizewinning author of Other People''s Countries and Throw me to the Wolves.












