Homesickness and Exile
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Homesickness and Exile

Poems about Longing and Belonging

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eBook - ePub

Homesickness and Exile

Poems about Longing and Belonging

About this book

How does it feel to be a foreigner? Can you choose where you call home? What if you reject your home or your home rejects you? Homesickness and Exile is a fascinating collection of poems about the fundamental human need to belong to a place, as poets from across the world provide profound and moving insights into the emotional pull of countries and cities. Poems about homecoming, departure and both voluntary and involuntary exile provoke reflections on alienation and identity, and a recurring theme is the yearning for a sense of belonging and acceptance by a place. This anthology is inspired by the Tristia, a collection of poems written by the Roman poet Ovid after he was banished from Rome by the Emperor for an unknown misdemeanour. Homesickness and Exile expands on Ovid's themes and considers spiritual as well as physical exile in the modern world, with poets writing about rootlessness and geographical ennui.

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Yes, you can access Homesickness and Exile by Emma Dai'an Wright, Rachel Piercey in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Poetry. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781910139028
eBook ISBN
9781910139103
Subtopic
Poetry

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Light on the Galactic Tide
  3. Dundalk
  4. Homecoming
  5. Yellow Sea Night
  6. Emigrant
  7. Foreign
  8. Ithaca, NY
  9. Prodigalia
  10. One Morning, Borås
  11. Paris, Texas
  12. Coming down
  13. Mzungu
  14. Away
  15. Exile
  16. Women of Corinth,
  17. Aunty
  18. Hiding from a Mouse
  19. On Rosebery Avenue
  20. Coming home
  21. The Town
  22. Ariel
  23. What Greta Garbo Offered
  24. The Restaurant at One Thousand Feet
  25. Winged Carrots
  26. The boy travels
  27. The Terminal Building
  28. Leaving Perth, October 2012
  29. Samovar
  30. Interview Conducted through the Man-Eater’s Throat
  31. Forgetting How to Swim
  32. In a local café
  33. Skype
  34. England, where did you go?
  35. The Descent from Mount Olympus
  36. Before
  37. Common Prayer
  38. Back Home
  39. vena cava
  40. Ten years later in a different bar
  41. Marooned
  42. Acknowledgments
  43. About the poets
  44. Also from the Emma Press
  45. The Emma Press