Gather
Autor Malene Engelunden Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2027
'Malene Engelund's poems are bright with elemental beauty. To read this collection is to enter into new relationship with a charged world in which love 'breaks and finds a new form', each poem radiant with the desire 'to gather as much colour as possible' SARAH WESTCOTT, shortlisted for the Ledbury Poetry Prize and Laurel Prize
'A visceral collection of poems. It's a unique book, and that is a very rare thing to be able to say' DAVID NASH, winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize, shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize.
'Malene Engelund's collection opens in the aftermath of an emotional storm [...] but in the poems that follow a mother gathers different threads together to weave a future for herself and her sons . . . poems engaging with the colour blue bring a bright stitch of precise and sensuous language as desire and hope return' LORRAINE MARINER, shortlisted for the Forward Prize and Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize
The poems in Malene Engelund's debut collection, Gather, speak of resilience and repair. These poems are evidence of a gathering of the self, as well as the gathering in of others; of children, of totemic artists, musicians and other touchstones, summoned as solid air to 'hang the words for ruin on'. A sequence of 'Variations', imagistic in their shape and shot through with colour and light, help to frame work taking place at 'the edge of our atmosphere', on thresholds, or at the point of fracture.
These are poems which look the reader in the eye, which dive in 'despite the fear of going under', and which seek to carry out their acts of restoration, and freedom, while burning off what can no longer be borne.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472161284
ISBN-10: 1472161289
Pagini: 96
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Corsair
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1472161289
Pagini: 96
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Corsair
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
This clear-eyed collection by Malene Engelund starts as it means to continue, literally and figuratively, with the strength and fragility of glass, keeping heat in and keeping cold at bay. This balancing act continues throughout the book, and it is no mean feat to write as though with a blade on ice, and yet convey such warmth. More impressive still: there's playfulness here, not just formally or in the sing-song circularity of motifs, but in Engelund's affection for language. She has had fun writing these poems, whatever the heaviness of the subject matter; she's got down into the weeds of words, she's got her hands dirty. What she has come back up with is a visceral collection of poems, yes, poems that look you square in the eye, yes, but they are open and generous and remarkably fair, and they reward a return. It's a unique book, and that is a very rare thing to be able to say
Gatherby Malene Engelund is a quietly elegant book of poems, but the poems furrow. These are lyrically meditative poems that rely on delicate imagery to propel them forward-a bowl of berries, the blue of a cornflower, mushrooms gathered before snow, the sounds of sleeping children-as if to say the image measures time and carries a life forward, despite loss, despite sorrow. Color, specifically blue, also cuts across these poems like light, traversing their blue tone. Ultimately, the poems inGathercollect images and thumbnail narratives, but hold their secrets close to their chests, their delicate mysteries blooming in beauty.
Malene Engelund's poems are bright with elemental beauty - each layered line reaching towards light, 'a blue opening'. These are poems that gather and bear truths and griefs, alive to the quickening of love, loss and resilience, through innovative formal play. Drawing on visual art, music and familial and erotic love, each poem is 'aflame' in a burning world. Colour, most notably blue, becomes both metaphor and reality, a lens through which love, in all its guises, is drawn onto the page and into the ear, felt deep in each blue vein. These poems are both sensitive and rich, deeply attuned to the more-than-human world, exploring vulnerability and connection. To read this collection is to enter into new relationship with a charged world in which love 'breaks and finds a new form', each poem radiant with the desire 'to gather as much colour as possible'
Malene Engelund's collection opens in the aftermath of an emotional storm, a family unit in tatters, but in the poems that follow a mother gathers different threads together to weave a future for herself and her sons. I loved the recurring motifs that revealed themselves as I spent more time with the poems, like turning over a tapestry from the reverse and seeing its pattern fully; windows and glass, frost and fire, water and ice, a knife blade and golden coins. Lessons are learned from a deep engagement with art and wisdom is foraged from the natural world. But as the narrator teaches her children, they in turn impart knowledge to her. 'I only trusted blue' - poems engaging with the colour blue bring a bright stitch of precise and sensuous language as desire and hope return
Gatherby Malene Engelund is a quietly elegant book of poems, but the poems furrow. These are lyrically meditative poems that rely on delicate imagery to propel them forward-a bowl of berries, the blue of a cornflower, mushrooms gathered before snow, the sounds of sleeping children-as if to say the image measures time and carries a life forward, despite loss, despite sorrow. Color, specifically blue, also cuts across these poems like light, traversing their blue tone. Ultimately, the poems inGathercollect images and thumbnail narratives, but hold their secrets close to their chests, their delicate mysteries blooming in beauty.
Malene Engelund's poems are bright with elemental beauty - each layered line reaching towards light, 'a blue opening'. These are poems that gather and bear truths and griefs, alive to the quickening of love, loss and resilience, through innovative formal play. Drawing on visual art, music and familial and erotic love, each poem is 'aflame' in a burning world. Colour, most notably blue, becomes both metaphor and reality, a lens through which love, in all its guises, is drawn onto the page and into the ear, felt deep in each blue vein. These poems are both sensitive and rich, deeply attuned to the more-than-human world, exploring vulnerability and connection. To read this collection is to enter into new relationship with a charged world in which love 'breaks and finds a new form', each poem radiant with the desire 'to gather as much colour as possible'
Malene Engelund's collection opens in the aftermath of an emotional storm, a family unit in tatters, but in the poems that follow a mother gathers different threads together to weave a future for herself and her sons. I loved the recurring motifs that revealed themselves as I spent more time with the poems, like turning over a tapestry from the reverse and seeing its pattern fully; windows and glass, frost and fire, water and ice, a knife blade and golden coins. Lessons are learned from a deep engagement with art and wisdom is foraged from the natural world. But as the narrator teaches her children, they in turn impart knowledge to her. 'I only trusted blue' - poems engaging with the colour blue bring a bright stitch of precise and sensuous language as desire and hope return