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    In Mortal Memory
    In Mortal Memory
    In Mortal Memory
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    In Mortal Memory

    By Andrew McNeillie

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    Joyful, elegiac, and immediate, these lyric and often celebratory poems engage personal and natural history, nation-states and mental states, violence, religion, and poetry itself. An ecologically focused collection, each poem affirms life as all-becoming, dwelling on metaphors such as mountains and valleys, the changing seasons, and the vastness of the sea. Divided into two partsSong in Winter,” a collection of unrepentantly self-indulgent verse, and At Sea,” containing extended tributes to George Campbell, W. S. Graham, J. M. Synge, and othersthese astonishing poems, taken as a whole, work against formalities while maintaining a fluid rhyming structure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
    Release dateApr 1, 2010
    ISBN9781847779199
    In Mortal Memory
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    Andrew McNeillie

    Andrew McNeillie was born in North Wales and read English at Magdalen College, Oxford before becoming an editor and publisher. For a key period in his life, he was literature editor at Oxford University Press. He has also held a chair in English at Exeter University where he is now Emeritus Professor. He is the founding editor of the magazine Archipelago and runs the Clutag Press. His memoir Once appeared in 2009 from Seren. His Carcanet poetry collections are Nevermore (2000), Now, Then (2002), Slower (2006), In Mortal Memory (2010) and Winter Moorings (2014). His memoir, An Aran Keening, was published in 2001.

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