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The Recycling

  • ISBN-13: 9781800173194
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Joey Connolly
  • Price: AUD $29.99
  • Stock: 12 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 27/09/2023
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 80 pages Weight: 150g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Joey Connolly's second book of poems focuses on dissolution and aftermath. It roams across forms and history, grieves for a relationship that broke down, and it is haunted by climate anxiety. The Recycling asks if the specific occasions of this particular book - circling round heartbreak, the solaces of art and the natural world - only deflect the abiding terror of a dying planet in what he calls 'humankind's millenarian agriculture of want'. Riffing on the work of other writers' attempts, optimistic and in the end futile, to reach out to the other - human or not - Connolly's technically audacious poems churn traditional poetics into a heap of repurposed pages, rusted fastenings, glittering fragments. Connolly's dense, thinky, often darkly funny poems are, as Will Harris writes, 'a serious attempt to write philosophy as poetry [...] without losing sensuality's boom boom.'
Joey Connolly grew up in Sheffield, studied in Manchester and now works in London as the Director of Faber Academy. He received an Eric Gregory award in 2012, and his first collection, Long Pass, was published by Carcanet in 2017.
'A North-of-England Cavafy' - David Wheatley, The Guardian
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