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Insistence
Ailbhe Darcy
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Description for Insistence
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A new child should mean new hope. But what if that's no longer so? Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018, Ailbhe Darcy's second collection unfolds in an intimate world, in which the words home and love dominate. But the private world is threatened by a public one. Written in the American Rust Belt, in an era of climate change and upheaval, Insistence takes stock of the parent's responsibility to her child, the poet's responsibility to the reader, and the vulnerability of the person in the face of global crisis. In a long poem, Darcy revisits Inger Christensen's 1981 Alphabet, ... Read more
A new child should mean new hope. But what if that's no longer so? Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018, Ailbhe Darcy's second collection unfolds in an intimate world, in which the words home and love dominate. But the private world is threatened by a public one. Written in the American Rust Belt, in an era of climate change and upheaval, Insistence takes stock of the parent's responsibility to her child, the poet's responsibility to the reader, and the vulnerability of the person in the face of global crisis. In a long poem, Darcy revisits Inger Christensen's 1981 Alphabet, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780370781
SKU
9781780370781
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About Ailbhe Darcy
Ailbhe Darcy was born in Dublin in 1981 and brought up there. She studied for her PhD and MFA at the University of Notre Dame in the US, and taught there and at the University of Munster in Germany. She is now a lecturer in creative writing at Cardiff University. She has published her poetry in Ireland, Britain and the ... Read more
Reviews for Insistence
'Insistence includes a remarkable long sequence, Alphabet, which derives its unusual poetic form from the Danish poet Inger Christensen's alphabetical, accumulating sequence (also named Alphabet). Darcy's sequence oscillates between doomy prognostication... and scattered consolations.' - John McAuliffe, The Irish Times 'In the face of terrible knowledge, Darcy has managed the almost impossible here: a collection that, though ... Read more