Swarming (Salt Modern Poets) - Softcover

Mackay, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844719081 ISBN 13: 9781844719082

Publisher: Salt Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Swarming is a waspish debut of strange voices and unsettling moments which jostle at the border of individual and collective experience: a holy fool lurks uneasily in an abattoir; a host of angels go to work in the Israeli post office; a tiger wanders through London, blurring the lines between dream and reality, the atomised individual and the possibilities of the social. Meanwhile Mesolithic voices emerge in a spell from the depths of the north sea and eclectic presiding spirits from Ivor Gurney to Jim and William Reid haunt poems which are deeply personal and quietly political – poems which hope, fiercely, for a remade world and rage that it is not so.

About this title

About the Author

Edward Mackay studied History and English at Oxford University, lives in east London where he also runs a mediation charity. His poetry was shortlisted for the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize (2011), commended in the Emerge Escalator competition (2010) and shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award (2009). He has been widely published in magazines and anthologies – this is his first solo publication.

Edition details

• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844719081
• ISBN 13: 9781844719082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36