Beyond Stillness - Softcover

Mark Roper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1915629039 ISBN 13: 9781915629036

Publisher: Dedalus Press, 2022

Synopsis

A true hymn to heaven and earth, Beyond Stillness is a moving, sensitive exploration of our relationship with the damaged natural world, seen up close and often in astonishing, affecting detail. Comprising poems that express, often simultaneously, both wonder and grief, with his trademark precision Mark Roper’s new collection observes and sketches the world around him with an enviable lightness, even as his perspective gradually widens to include memories of his upbringing, a growing awareness of his own health and mortality. Throughout, we hear the naturalist’s self-doubt ('If I could learn / to go without saying' –‘River’) but this only brings us closer to both the human witness and to the greater subject of his fascination.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Roper was born in Derbyshire in 1951 and has lived in Ireland since 1980. His collections include The Hen Ark (1990), which won the 1992 Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection; The Home Fire (1998) and Whereabouts (2005). A Gather of Shadow (2012) was joint winner of the Michael Hartnett Award in 2014, and was shortlisted, along with Bindweed (2018), for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Even So: New & Selected Poems, was published by Dedalus Press in 2008. He has also collaborated on 3 books with the photographer Paddy Dwan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dedalus Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1915629039
• ISBN 13: 9781915629036
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88