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Title: Readiness, The
Author: GILLIS ALAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 26/05/2020
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $22.00
Publishing status: Active
In his Picador debut, Alan Gillis – one of the most admired Irish poets of his generation – addresses some of the most pressing concerns of the age: how can we live at the centre of our contemporary paradox, disconnected and hyper-connected as we are?
A poet of thresholds and crossings, Gillis finds his answers in the suburbs and edgelands, at the hesitation before the doorstep or the gate. <i>The Readiness</i> sites itself at the heart of our human contradictions, and explores their meaning. These poem form a series of bad dreams and clear visions that speak to the chaos and fragility of both self and society: the childhood innocence that persists into the resignation of adulthood; the beauty of nature in an age of environmental ruin; the terrible isolation of contemporary life – and the live-streamed, advert-laden over-wiring that springs from its digital commons. It does this with a formal confidence, a dry wit and often astonishing lyricism that marks Gillis as one of the most individual and vital poetic voices now at work.
ISBN: 9781529037661
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 197mm X 153mm
Pages: 80