Blood Feather Patrick McGuinness Jonathan Cape Ltd

In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves.In Blood Feather, a book of doubling and displacement, we see time in a new way: the past, personal and collective, lingering as an ever-present ghost - while lost beyond recall.The first section, \'Squeeze the Day\' - a series of deeply moving poems about the author\'s mother, displaced between languages - investigates her illness and death; how being bilingual is like having a double, a second self; how each self haunts the other. \'The Noises Things Make When They Leave\' elegises today\'s post-industrial landscapes, their people and professions: sidelined by literature, bypassed by globalisation. The final sequence, \'After the Flood\', links the book\'s themes, seeking a way of seeing things for the first time and the last time simultaneously. Exploring the gaps between languages and between our selves in language, Patrick McGuinness dreams of a new tense in which the world\'s losses are redeemed:\'It\'s the anniversary of my mother\'s death,and it\'s my mother\'s birthday -the day she short-circuited the tenses,made the current flow both ways.\'A clear-sighted, intimate new poetry collection from the prizewinning author of Other People\'s Countries and Throw me to the Wolves. Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 13.3x13.3cm