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The Storm House
Tim Liardet
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Description for The Storm House
Paperback. A book length elegy for the poet's dead brother. Num Pages: 66 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 6. Weight in Grams: 98. 80 pages. A book length elegy for the poet's dead brother. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 6. Weight: 98.
In 2006 Tim Liardet's brother died at a young age in mysterious circumstances. The Storm House is a response to a mystery it knows can never be solved, a book-length elegy that is a grief-fugue and an exploration of the violent, loving, complex psychodrama of family. The two parts of the book form a powerful narrative of sorrow and anger, the events recollected in the first part retold, fragmented and illuminated by the sonnets of the second. Out of uncertainty, trauma and silence, the poet creates powerful poetry that finds catharsis in 'the spring and leap / of energy' of ... Read more
In 2006 Tim Liardet's brother died at a young age in mysterious circumstances. The Storm House is a response to a mystery it knows can never be solved, a book-length elegy that is a grief-fugue and an exploration of the violent, loving, complex psychodrama of family. The two parts of the book form a powerful narrative of sorrow and anger, the events recollected in the first part retold, fragmented and illuminated by the sonnets of the second. Out of uncertainty, trauma and silence, the poet creates powerful poetry that finds catharsis in 'the spring and leap / of energy' of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770677
SKU
V9781847770677
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About Tim Liardet
Tim Liardet is the author of seven collections of poetry. His third, Competing with the Piano Tuner (1998) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and longlisted for the Whitbread Poetry prize. His fifth, The Blood Chair (2006), won an Arts Council England Writer's Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize. Liardet is currently Professor of ... Read more
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