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My Reef My Manifest Array

  • ISBN-13: 9781784106911
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By John Wilkinson
  • Price: AUD $32.99
  • Stock: 3 in stock
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  • Local release date: 25/03/2019
  • Format: Undefined (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 192 pages Weight: 240g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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In 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan’s Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson’s childhood home, and supplies the title for the central cycle of poems in My Reef My Manifest Array. That totemic image of exile feeds an interest in borders and partings that runs throughout the collection. The Cornish landscape of the poet’s childhood, loaded with new significance following the death of his sister, is Wilkinson’s primary locus, but he ventures – flees, perhaps – farther afield, to Portland (Maine), Chicago, Sydney and Busan. Combining extended sequences with brief lyrics, Wilkinson’s lines tie minuscule linguistic knots that give pleasure when unwoven. The reading becomes archaeological as layers and layers of meaning, of feeling, of reason are exposed.
John Wilkinson was born in London and grew up on the Cornish coast and on Dartmoor. After university at Cambridge he trained as a psychiatric nurse and worked in mental health services and public health in the West Midlands, South Wales and London’s East End. In 2005 he moved to the United States and has held academic positions at the University of Notre Dame and at the University of Chicago where he is currently a Professor in the Department of English and Director of Creative Writing. His extensive publications include a selected poems (Schedule of Unrest, 2014). Wilkinson has held Fulbright and National Humanities Center fellowships.
* This poetry has affinities with works by important ecological and vitalist thinkers, and should gain readers beyond core contemporary poetry readers. * Poems haunted by Cornish childhood places, oceanic rhythms, sounds of mining and stone carving; mineral, mental and memory mining. * Formally various work, from extended sequences to brief lyrics. * Wilkinson is regarded as a central figure in ‘Cambridge’ poetry whose heightened profile is demonstrated by the success of publications by J.H. Prynne, Denise Riley and Drew Milne. * His work has received extensive critical commentary in Britain and the US.
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