The Antigone Poems - Softcover

Marie Slaight

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0980644704 ISBN 13: 9780980644708

Publisher: Altaire Productions & Publications, 2014

 
Infused with a brutal passion, The Antigone Poems is a stark and powerful collection of poems and charcoal drawings. An intensely personal invocation of the ancient Greek tragedy, the work was created in the 1970s while writer Marie Slaight and artist Terrence Tasker were living in Montreal and Toronto. A bold retelling of the ancient tale of defiance and justice, its poetry and images capture the anguish and despair of the original tale in an unembellished modernized rendition.
 
The Antigone Poems provides a special expedition into the depths of the ancient Sophocles tragedy.

From the Inside Flap:

An intensely personal invocation of the Sophocles tragedy, The Antigone Poems questions power, punishment and one of mythology's oldest themes: rebellion. Created in the 1970s while writer Marie Slaight and artist Terrence Tasker were living in Montreal and Toronto, its poetry and images capture the anguish of the original tale in an unembellished modernized rendition. The work's obsessive, ritualistic and ultimately mysterious force brings into sharp focus the heroic, tragic figure at the centre of the primordial compact between gods and humans.

About the Author:

MARIE SLAIGHT (1954 - ) has worked in Montreal, New Orleans, and Buenos Aires as a writer, producer, and performer for film, theatre and music. Her poetry has appeared in American Writing, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Poetry Salzburg, The Abiko Quarterly, New Orleans Review and elsewhere. Marie Slaight is currently the director of Altaire Productions & Publications, a Sydney-based arts production company, which has been involved in creative consulting and co-producing for independent New Orleans music and such films as the award-winning documentary Bury the Hatchet, Kindred and Anna and Modern Day Slavery. TERRENCE TASKER (1947-1992) was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, the son of a lumberjack. Raised in rural western Canada, he went on to become a self-taught artist and filmmaker. He made a series of short films which screened in New York and Toronto. He co-founded and built the original Studio Altaire, a 90-seat theater and visual art gallery that also ran after hours jazz concerts in downtown Montreal. He worked as a set builder as well as working in construction, mining, finance, industrial installations, taxi driving and film projectionist. He created the artwork for The Antigone Poems in the 1970s, while living in Montreal and Toronto.

• Publisher: Altaire Productions & Publications
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0980644704
• ISBN 13: 9780980644708
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104