Far District
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Far District

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eBook - ePub

Far District

About this book

Far District, the transporting debut from the author of House of Lords and Commons, is structured as the spiritual journey of a poet-speaker caught between two cultures. As childhood memory is grafted to the world of imagination - shaped by books, art, music and travel - the two come together to develop a new vision of what 'home' might offer.

' Far District is a classic, which is to say a rare and exemplary first book. This book is striking for the way Ishion Hutchinson's gorgeously textured language - shanty-zinc, asthmatic whirl, poincianas - stretches over far-reaching narratives of landscape and culture. With an ear "tuned to the blue above and below" he captures the physical rhythms of his native Jamaica as well as the broader, metaphysical rhythms of distance and displacement, "of [travelling] the narrow bridge separating" past and present.' PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry

'At once biography and autobiography, generous with its thinking and observations . . . the poems are urgent, authentic, deeply felt, and beautifully shaped. It is rare to find such achievement in a first collection, where an author writes from a place of humility in the face of literary tradition. His work possesses high artistic merit; his love of world literature suffuses his lines and spurs his ambition. This collection is a true work of alchemy.' Whiting Awards

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2021
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780571369218
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Landing Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. The Turning Road
  7. Anthropology
  8. Some Negatives
  9. House on the Hill
  10. Requiem for Aunt May
  11. Catch Fire
  12. The Mother Portrait
  13. Bones Be Still
  14. New World Frescoes
  15. At Bay
  16. Errant
  17. A Small Pantheon
  18. Far District
  19. Darkness Everywhere
  20. Bam-Bam
  21. The Venus of Willendorf
  22. Walking with Atlas
  23. Penalty Shot
  24. Doris at the River
  25. The Bauble-World
  26. Montale’s Lemons
  27. Letter from Home
  28. Icarus After
  29. Autobiography of Snow
  30. Vintage Rain
  31. Prometheus
  32. April
  33. Two Trees
  34. Undergod
  35. Terminus
  36. Bryan’s Bay Revisited
  37. Back to the Branch
  38. Nana
  39. Woodcutter
  40. The War Mule’s Account
  41. A Surveyor’s Journal
  42. Abeng
  43. Night Field Pledge
  44. Night Hawk
  45. Red X
  46. The Enigma of Return
  47. Circle March
  48. The Mirror Before Sleep
  49. The Last Circle
  50. Notes
  51. About the Author
  52. By the Same Author
  53. Copyright

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