Unexhausted Time
About this book
Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us 'like soft rain', and all the elements are brought closer in.
Feelings, messages, symbols, visions . . . Emily Berry's latest collection takes shape in the half-light between the real and the imagined, where everything is lost and yet 'nothing goes away'. Here life's innumerable impressions, moods, seasons and
déjà vus collect and disarrange themselves, while a glowing, companionable 'I' travels the mind's landscapes in hope of refuge and transformation amid these displaced moments in time. Whether one reads
Unexhausted Time as a long poem to step into or a series of titled and untitled fragments to pick up and cherish, the work is healing and inspiring, always asking how we might harness the power of naming without losing life's 'magic unknownness'. By offering these intangible encounters, Emily Berry more truly presents 'what being alive is'.
'Emily Berry has a refreshingly free, not to say incendiary, approach to poetry.'
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Table of contents
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- (The gate stood open)
- (This story is a leaf)
- (Late summer)
- (Funny you should mention a crow)
- (In this house)
- (The boxes were there)
- (It always seemed to me)
- (All statements purporting to be fact)
- (This is the story of a man)
- (One day you would say those words)
- (My love was two pieces put together)
- (In a dimly lit room)
- Dream of a Dog
- Nocturne
- Scholar
- Mother
- Baby
- Snake
- Fish Tank
- Therapy
- Bird
- Ghosts (Homage to Burial)
- House
- The Remains of the Day
- Paris
- Holes
- Lip
- Opinion
- Gods
- Bad Stone
- Empty
- Street
- Boat
- News
- This Spirit
- (You trod your lonely path)
- (A faint whisper of contagion)
- (For a number of months)
- (To write a poem)
- (I felt I was born in a time)
- (In my dreams)
- (I agree)
- (The night prints itself upon me)
- (On the screen)
- (What about personal relationships)
- (I will tell you in detail)
- (Late spring evening)
- (Light)
- (It was as if I were asleep)
- No Name
- Notes
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
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