A method, a path

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A product of deep engagement with the poetics of Old English with an awareness and interrogation of the ways iconography from this period has been co-opted for political ends. There is a balance here between an arcane lyricism and an awareness of when to let the style and perspective of the present inflect that of the long past.

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The poems at the centre of A Method, A Path explore the turbulent transmission of historical and mythic voices that ‘reach across’ time and place, and a fierce rejection of the nationalist ideologies that have sought to ‘island’ them. Here, translation is a lived and open-ended negotiation, invested in the potential for magic utterance and ritual action in spite of language’s violence: ‘words / tear their wing bones / and grow new heads / in the wound (‘On Eglond’). Each poem or sequence gathers around a different instance of dialogue or communication with others: with other voices and languages, with other authors and found texts, with other species. They also mark a record of Evans’ interdisciplinary collaboration with other artists and performers through his work both as writer and sound artist. The physical and textual landscapes of the book move from the flooded and wooded terrains of Somerset and East Anglia, to the burnt hills of Andalusìa in the company of Federìco Garcìa Lorca, the poems always inhabiting a place between Evans’ own words and external voices – whether via translation, haunting, or invocation. In this ‘tirelessly inventive, substantial collection of vivid lyrical work’ (Denise Riley, Eric Gregory Awards), the truant strangeness of the more-than-human world is made present in its ability to warp and transform the poet’s voice, where ‘even the ground under your feet is a fluid, malleable surface’ (Kayo Chingonyi).

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Weight 0.094 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 0.9 cm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

80

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K