Dry Stone Work
Johnstone, Brian
ISBN 10: 1908376066 ISBN 13: 9781908376060
Published by Arc Publications, 2014
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A grounded yet playful collection from an assured poet, flexing his muscles into newer territory. As well as the deep lineage of rural landscapes that populated previous collections, here Johnstone treats us to an extended trip to the circus, where the glitz and thrill of the big top and its stunts are peeled back to allow us into physical and emotional rigour that forms the show's scaffold. Elsewhere poems transport you more literally through film and TV history, around Europe and into the past, again balancing between illusion and the tension that supports it in the more mundane real world. And throughout, the tone and language also plays an ingenious balancing act between the structured, rhyming and informal. This is a personal and expansive collection, honest and exploratory.
About the Author: Born in Edinburgh in 1950, Brian Johnstone has lived in the Fife countryside since 1972. He has published two full collections and three pamphlets, as well as appearing in anthologies and other publications in Scotland, elsewhere in the UK and in Europe and the Americas. His poems have been translated into more than 10 different languages. In 2009 a chapbook of his poems in Italian translation was published by L'Officina (Vincenza). I 1998 he was one of the founders of StAnza: Scotland's International Poetry Festival, and served as its drector from 2000-2010.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Dry Stone Work
Publisher: Arc Publications
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New