Below This Level - Softcover

Corcoran, Kelvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848616848 ISBN 13: 9781848616844

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2019

Synopsis

Below This Level recounts the experience of prostate cancer: diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. These poems of tender affirmation and discovery also face up to the hard facts. Their expansive lyricism is dedicated to a sustained recognition of the kindness and intelligence of others.

‘Corcoran is at the front of contemporary poetry: the lyric grace of his language is threaded with an historical perspective that raises the poetry far beyond the world of a localised present.’ —Ian Brinton

‘Corcoran is a superbly skilled lyricist.’ —Frances Leviston, The Guardian

About this title

About the Author

Kelvin Corcoran lives in Brussels. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including most recently Facing West, 2017, the Medicine Unboxed-sponsored Not Much To Say Really, 2017, and Article 50, 2018. The sequence `Helen Mania' was a Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice and the poem `At the Hospital Doors' was highly commended by the Forward Prize jury 2017. His work is the subject of a study edited by Professor Andy Brown, The Poetry Occurs as Song, 2013. He edited an account of the poetry of Lee Harwood in Not the Full Story: Six Interviews with Lee Harwood, 2008. In addition his poetry has been commissioned to accompany travelling Arts Council exhibitions of British modernist art. He has collaborated with various musicians and composers both in performance and recording, producing the CD A Thesis on the Ballad with The Jack Hues Quartet. His work has been anthologised in the UK and the USA and translated into Greek and Spanish. He is guest editor of Shearsman poetry magazine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848616848
• ISBN 13: 9781848616844
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36