54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father E-Book

Joe Carrick-Varty

• Herausgeber: Out-Spoken Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 13

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father is the second pamphlet by British-born Irish poet Joe Carrick-Varty. "Atmospheric, suffused with the blue light of other people's televisions, these poems, while often devastating, possess a tremendous warmth. Carrick-Varty takes an object/a loved one/a particular moment in time and carefully turns it over and over in his hands. This pamphlet is open-hearted, thoughtful — painfully, beautifully alive to the world and its strange specifics" — Ella Frears "Joe Carrick-Varty's poems don't need permission from anybody. Their exceptional and beautiful vulnerability is a permission all of its own. Each poem contained here demonstrates a mind completely awake to the sadnesses and risks of intimacy, and awake to finding an original vocabulary for articulating these things. A brilliant short collection. I'm utterly convinced of this poet's talent." —Wayne Holloway-Smith

Leseprobe

Published by Out-Spoken Press,

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London, E2 9FP

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© Joe Carrick-Varty

The rights of Joe Carrick-Varty to be identified as the author of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

A CIP record for this title is available from the British Library.

This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Out-Spoken Press.

First edition published 2020

ISBN: 9781838021139

ePub ISBN: 9781838021153

Typeset in: Adobe Caslon

Out-Spoken Press is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Acknowledgments

Thanks are due to the editors of the publications where some of these poems, or versions of them, first appeared: The Interpreter’s House, Magma, Manchester Review,New Statesman, PN Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and Poetry Review. Special thanks to Anthony Anaxagorou, Rowland Bagnall, Patricia Ferguson, Ella Frears, Elizabeth Garrett, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Gboyega Odubanjo, Anne Varty and Mariah Whelan.

Contents

And God said

Sambas for Christmas

Dear Postie

When he waits at the bar my father’s brain is miles above his pint

Withdrawal

THE CHILDREN

More Sky

The Father Heavens

Father Cosmology

Fathers of Previous World Cycles

Great Peacock Wisdom King

Life Father

All my fathers are hunting dodos in the park

54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father

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