Berlin Bursts

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Robert Sheppard

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These new poems use tense couplets and other 'centrifugal' forms to centre their energies in nodes of impacted attention. They feature territories as dispersed as Sheppard's local City of Culture and the global city of division and political murder of the title poem. The scar of history is drawn across the face of time, as in tragic Riga where we find reflections on artefacts of survival. Yet a series of metapoems brings agency and wonder to the idea of the poem, always seeing the world as well as itself, in perceptual double-takes that tease away at the meaning of the poetic act: "You'll never finish reading/ the poem in the book with reality pulling itself/ inside out before your eyes."

Author Biography:

Robert Sheppard's poetry is collected in Complete Twentieth Century Blues (Salt), and anthologised in Anthology of Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford). A previous volume is available from Shearsman, Warrant Error, and a prose anti-biography, The Given, has appeared from Knives Forks and Spoons. He co-edits The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, and has published criticism widely. His new critical volume, When Bad Times Made for Good Poetry is published by Shearsman. He is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Edge Hill University, Lancashire, and lives in Liverpool.

Release date Australia

February 15th, 2011

Author

Robert Sheppard

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

black & white illustrations

Pages

Dimensions

216x140x5

ISBN-13

9781848611351

Product ID

10066410

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