
Eskatos & the Stretched Necks of Stillness
by Mats Söderlund
Title:
Eskatos & the Stretched Necks of Stillness
Author:
Mats Söderlund
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
160 pages, Illustrations
Publisher:
Restless Books
ISBN-13:
9781632064158
EAN:
9781632064158
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
281.03
Dimensions (mm):
187 x 133
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
The English-language debut and foremost work of lauded Nordic poet Mats Söderlund, winner of the 2024 Norrland Literature Prize and the Swedish Catapult Prize.In a sweeping but intimate blend of ecopoetry, mythology, and political verse, Eskatos & the Stretched Necks of Stillness communes with Sweden''s primeval woodlands during an age of transformation. These collected poems lead the reader down overgrown paths, beyond the flickering of leaves and lichen, to meet "the dead": a troop of scattered spirits that Söderlund sets out to praise, and to mourn. Shining of rain and gnawing of sorrow, cast from stone, frost, surgical nails, and charcoal ash, Söderlund''s hypnotic ode forms a fragile tether to a world and past that threatens to slip through our fingers, and which no generation who seeks to survive can disclaim.










