The Conversation
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78037-574-8 (ISBN)
In The Conversation, Stephanie Norgate explores relationships between nature and the city, the past and present, and character and writer. Shaped through both speech and storytelling, these visual, sensuous and imaginative poems celebrate friendship, even in grief, closeness in times of isolation and lockdown, and the longing to bridge gaps and find cures. Miracles are found in the everyday, in a child’s sleep or a lit-up house. Textiles transform into remembrancers, landscape into emotion. A contemporary Daedalus views his life from a hang-glider. A scrap of handwriting, cafe talk, an exploding car, an earthquake, the naming of fields or a line of walkers ignite conversations about place, time and the tender paradoxes of mortality.
Stephanie Norgate’s first collection Hidden River (2008) was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was followed by The Blue Den (2012). The Conversation is her third collection. Her poetry has been praised for the ‘depth of its lyricism’ (Jackie Wills, Warwick Review), and for being ‘energetic and generous, and displaying a ‘feeling for place, for the roots of things’ and for being ‘searching, memorable and disconcerting … She has the ear for the music of a line and the shape and strength of an image.’ (R.V. Bailey, Artemis).
Stephanie Norgate is a poet and playwright. Her plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. For many years, she ran the MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University and is now a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Southampton. She edited an international collection of essays, Poetry and Voice (CSP, 2012) and Winchester Poetry Festival’s Chalk Poets Anthology (Sarsen Press, 2015). In 2016, she completed a study of poetry trails for South Downs National Park. As a translator, she has contributed to Modern Poetry in Translation and the MPT anthology, Centres of Cataclysm (Bloodaxe Books/MPT, 2016). Her chapter about the imagery of the house in her poetry appears in Architectural Space and the Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Her three collections of poetry with Bloodaxe are Hidden River (2008), which was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, The Blue Den (2012) and The Conversation (2021).
11 The House
12 Eavesdroppers
13 Word Hoards
14 Miracle
15 February Foxes
16 Sycamore
17 Dead Nettle in the Fann Street Wildlife Garden
18 Wildlife Garden in the City
29 outside some flats in Camberwell
21 Orthopaedics and Trauma, King’s College Hospital
23 Bedroom Tax
25 Evening Teaching
26 ask the heathland
27 walk in a wood after a long loneliness
28 The Machine
30 Night Walk with My Parents
31 To Wish on the Stone
32 The Bridge
34 lines prompted by an old leather travel bag
36 In Trieste
37 Jane Austen’s Visitor
38 Studio mirror: the maid speaks
39 Dalí among the cactuses
40 Time Slip
41 Sweet Woodruff
42 Comfort
43 The Night Table
44 Terrace Ghosts
45 on seeing a drift of blackthorn in April’s haze
46 Question
47 At the Stone Chamber of an Ancient Village
49 lockdown bluebells
50 above ourselves
51 To sing of soap in desperate times
53 An Hour’s Walk
55 The Sears and Roebuck sheet as Scrubs Bag
57 Through a glass darkly
58 Elegy for the Closeness of London
62 After an evening’s writing in the shed
63 The Summoner of Birds
64 The Wake
65 Your Poem
66 At St Erth
67 Walking the Path Again
69 The Conversation
70 Siskin
72 Daedalus over the Downs
74 Gate on the Downs
76 What the chair saw
77 The Clumsinesses
78 The Tile
79 Landings
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.09.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Tyne and Wear |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78037-574-3 / 1780375743 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78037-574-8 / 9781780375748 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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