Richard Osmond won the Seamus Heaney Prize for his widely praised first collection, Useful Verses. His second, Rock, Paper, Scissors, presents an extraordinary, collaged response to the poet’s direct experience of the terrorist attack in London on June 3rd, 2017.
Osmond has written a powerful and challenging collection of original poems representing the complex, fragmentary nature of traumatic experience. Interleaved with these are translated excerpts of two very different texts: the Qur’an and the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. Osmond’s translations from the Qur’an, in contrast to the stereotype of the Qur’an as a monolithic book full of judgement and proscription, focus on its vivid lyricism and the surprisingly riddling nature of its philosophy. Meanwhile, the visceral and frightening excerpts from Beowulf echo with unnervingly modern resonances.
Rock, Paper, Scissors takes a bold look at the problems of interpretation of texts and of events: in taking every opportunity to keep the complexity of his difficult subject intact, and in his refusal to simplify some of the most urgent questions of the age, Osmond has written a book of compelling importance.
Praise for Useful Verses:
‘A wonderfully original collection, which relishes and renews everything that poetry can do with language’ EDNA LONGLEY
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[Richard Osmond] has made a remarkably intelligent, moving and even-handed cycle of poems out of [a] close brush with death in Rock, Paper, Scissors which manages to sew together firsthand reportage, menacing translations from Beowulf, and quotations from the and quotations from the Koran. Not to be missed. (The Tablet)
Book Description:Prize-winning poet Richard Osmond's second collection, Rock Paper Scissors, presents an extraordinary, collaged response to the poet’s direct experience of the terrorist attack in London on June 3rd, 2017.
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