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At The Brasserie Lipp

  • ISBN-13: 9781784107031
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Michael Edwards
  • Price: AUD $24.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
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  • Local release date: 25/03/2019
  • Format: Undefined (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 72 pages Weight: 160g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Seated at a table in the celebrated Brasserie Lipp, the author experiences ‘this in- / fernal ticking in the ink’ and finds memory coming alive, recovering past moments as intensely present, spots of time which vivify him and his past. Through memory and poetry he experiences revelation of a Christian depth. England is a familiar yet now a foreign country: the author having written for years in French. ‘English becomes / a strange tongue echoing readily with names / gainrising with the new-born world they name.’ Distinct recollections open into one another, restored and changed in language. Music and painting, too, are evoked as windows on this world. The book includes ninety poems organised into thirty sections, each with three poems which are free-standing yet connected, speaking together. His English takes its bearings from the stress patterns of Anglo Saxon prosody. Not only the poet but his language itself returns to its beginnings.
After Cambridge, Michael Edwards taught at the universities of Warwick and Essex, before being elected Professor of Literary Creation in English at the prestigious Collège de France, Paris. Early volumes of poetry and critical works appeared in England; he then turned to French, for further collections of poetry and numerous works on European literature, painting and music, on philosophy, language, and the Bible. The first Briton admitted to the Académie française, he has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Cambridge, where he is also Fellow of Christ’s College. He has been awarded the OBE and a Knighthood in Britain, and the Légion d’honneur in France.
* Poems exploring memory (personal, geographical, linguistic) and the depths of an invisible Christian reality. * The poet imagines himself writing from a café in Paris, and brings a familiar and yet foreign perspective on England. * Collection features 90 poems sectioned into groupings of three, the poems working autonomously but finding deeper meaning in such groupings. * The return to English poetry of the first ever Briton to be admitted to the Académie française, who has been living in France and writing in French for many years. * Edwards remains a Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge.
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