Lowland - Softcover

Kemp, Will

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907090940 ISBN 13: 9781907090943

Publisher: Cinnamon Press, 2013

Synopsis

Lowland is a moving collection in three parts that begins and ends in the visually arresting lowlands of Holland. The language is as pared down and stark as the landscape, but emotion bristles between the lines. Beginning in childhood, we feel for the awkward boy imagining himself as James Bond, whose strength, in reality, only stretches so far as having a quip ready for Gary Murray / as he pasted my face into the playground wall (Bond). Later, a book of Roman and Greek myth shows the young poet how those kings / packed their daughters suitors off / to slaughter , foreshadowing events to come. As love blossoms, loss and breakdown loom: Just the dark of a storm, this swarm of black wings / over the standing corn; / and that dirt track though / its centre, leading nowhere. (Ravens over cornfields). Finally there is reprise: lyrical, wistful, mature, a sense of life s canvas being both scattered / and as one .

About this edition

• Publisher: Cinnamon Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1907090940
• ISBN 13: 9781907090943
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 80