The Silence
eBook - ePub

The Silence

  1. 120 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Silence

About this book

The title poem of The Silence is a meditation on Sibelius and the thirty years he spent grappling with an eighth symphony that he eventually burned. The poem is emblematic of a broader concern with the mystery of the creative process, explored in the work of other artists but also grappled with first-hand, in the composition of poems. Death, that most emphatic of silences, is a recurring theme; but so too is the bright potentiality of the unknown, the beyond. A tribute to the late Dennis O'Driscoll is, among other things, a bold meditation on hope. Elsewhere, Greening visits the Peak District, the Ancient Egypt of Nebamun, Sibelius's Finland, and the vanished settlements beneath Heathrow Airport.

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Publisher
Carcanet Poetry
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781784107475
eBook ISBN
9781784107482
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. Sibelius
  7. On St Cecilia’s Day
  8. Nebamun’s Tomb
  9. Kew
  10. Evensong
  11. Bunker
  12. 1d
  13. Heath
  14. Rite
  15. Woden
  16. Chalk
  17. Two Roads
  18. X5
  19. Stray Objects
  20. Five Hilliard Miniatures
  21. Fontevraud
  22. Tree Rings
  23. Unknotting
  24. To a Lost Friend
  25. Flight Path
  26. Airmail for Chief Seattle
  27. Totem
  28. The Day
  29. Visionary
  30. Compleat
  31. After Hölderlin: To the Fates
  32. After Hölderlin: Homecoming
  33. After Hölderlin: Hyperion’s Song of Destiny
  34. Under
  35. From the Peak
  36. The Silence
  37. Notes
  38. Acknowledgements
  39. About the Author
  40. Also by John Greening
  41. Copyright

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