Darkness Inside Out

Rodney Pybus

ISBN 10: 1847772013 / ISBN 13: 9781847772015

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, GB, 2012

About this Item

In DARKNESS INSIDE OUT Rodney Pybus takes the reader on a series of excursions within real and imagined, beautiful and barbaric worlds. From Suffolk to Cape Town, from comedy to elegy, Pybus's poems explore the collusions of language and memory, the layerings of time and loss. A sequence set in the new South Africa closes this absorbing collection. Pybus shows that it is finally the work of the imagination that best turns darkness inside out.

Seller Inventory # LU-9781847772015

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Darkness Inside Out
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847772013
• ISBN 13: 9781847772015
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Offering a variety of explorations into different worlds, real and imaginary, beautiful and barbaric, this poetry compilation attempts to illuminate some of life’s difficult puzzles. A journey through a series of vivid encounters—ranging from fireflies outside a Gascony farmhouse and John Wayne sailing a converted minesweeper to a bull terrier listening to a CD and the poet standing atop Table Mountain with his granddaughter—this collection probes and celebrates traditional affinities between memory and language, time and loss. In its closing poem, this book suggests that it is the imagination that can best turn darkness inside out.

About the Author

Rodney Pybus is a former newspaper journalist; a former television writer and producer; and a former creative writing, literature, and media university lecturer. He is the author of Cicades in their Summers and Flying Blues and the recipient of awards from the Arts Council England and the Society of Authors, and a winner of the Peterloo International Poetry Competition.