An Arbitrary Light Bulb - Ian Duhig

An Arbitrary Light Bulb

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Buch | Softcover
96 Seiten
2024
Picador (Verlag)
978-1-0350-3320-1 (ISBN)
16,20 inkl. MwSt
A brilliant, meditative collection from one of Britain's finest contemporary poets.
An Arbitrary Light Bulb is Ian Duhig’s most personal collection of poems to date. It takes its title from the most common type of household bulb – yet one whose name is virtually unknown, like many people these poems celebrate.

Duhig finds in the arbitrary an image for the randomness of inspiration and of life, haunted here by deaths of family and friends. He laments the lost but also responds to the glories of our existence, especially among the overlooked, with humour, technical variety and contagious pleasure.

Starting out from ‘contrary Leeds’, his home for half a century, Duhig’s poems roam widely through history, art-forms, loves and injustices, fired by the desire to share it all with his readers: knowledge, joy, anger and wonder.

Ian Duhig worked with homeless people for fifteen years before becoming a writer and he is still actively involved with minority and marginalised groups on artistic projects. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Cholmondeley Award recipient, Duhig has won the Forward Best Poem Prize once, the National Poetry Competition twice and been shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize four times. He lives in Leeds with his wife Jane.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.11.2024
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 197 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10 1-0350-3320-8 / 1035033208
ISBN-13 978-1-0350-3320-1 / 9781035033201
Zustand Neuware
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