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Late Gifts

  • ISBN-13: 9781800173491
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Richard Price
  • Price: AUD $29.99
  • Stock: 9 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 01/01/2024
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 80 pages Weight: 150g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Late Gifts is a joyful and anxious book. The eponymous late gift, this books occasion, is a son, born to a middle-aged father. How does this change his sense of present and future, of time itself? The poet focuses on this demanding and joyful relationship in terms that are funny and re-energising, his world renewed. The childs future makes more urgent environmental and politics themes that have long been a concern for the poet. Price, a versatile and experimental writer, develops new forms for his subject matter. The lyric investigates the visual disposition of the poem - the use of white spaces - and the possibilities of the prose poem. This, Prices first collection in six years, is direct and idiomatic in style.

Richard Price has published over a dozen books of poetry since his debut in 1993, including Lucky Day(2005), which was a Guardian Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. Since then, every Carcanet collection he has published has been shortlisted for a major prize. In 2012 his poem ‘Hedge Sparrows’ was chosen to represent Team GB in the Olympics project ‘The Written World’. A year later, Small World, won the Creative Scotland Award in his home country. It was followed by another Guardian Book of the Year, Moon for Sale (2017).

• Previous collection, Moon for Sale, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year 2017 and was a Guardian Book of the Year 2017

• His re-telling of Inuit stories The Owner of the Sea was a The Scotsman Book of the Year 2021

• A collection of lyric poems exploring a middle-aged father’s relationship with his new son and the dating game in one’s mid-fifties

• Also includes counterpoint radical prose poems addressing the profiteering/environmental crisis• Head of Contemporary British Collections at the British Library and a tutor at the Poetry School, London

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