Oils E-Book

Stephen Sexton

• Herausgeber: The Emma Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Serie: The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 24

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Oils is a gorgeous, beguiling collection of poems where the poise of the delivery belies the emotional, existential turmoil within. Through his portraits of an atheist, a pickpocket and a spinach-loving sailor (among others), Stephen Sexton evokes a strange kind of melancholy as he strives to reconcile passion with detachment and profound self-doubt with unwavering love.

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PRAISEFOROILS

‘The Choice for this quarter is Stephen Sexton’s Oils: a series of finely crafted and vibrant poems, playing out central concerns of loss and dislocation.’ Luke Kennard and Denise Saul’s Selectors’ Comment in the PBS Bulletin

‘These are poems to make you ponder – to read and re-read, savouring the language and reflecting on the mysterious subjects at hand as you go.’ Claire Savage, Culture Northern Ireland

‘I am always convinced there is something interesting going on, some depth of thought, some originality of observation and expression. [...] The language is slightly elevated, and the emotional punch hits dead centre.’ Stephen Payne, Sabotage Reviews

OTHERTITLESFROMTHEEMMAPRESS

POETRYPAMPHLETS

Pisanki, by Zosia Kuczyńska

Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real, by Padraig Regan

Paisley, by Rakhshan Rizwan

SHORTSTORYPAMPHLETS

First fox, by Leanne Radojkovich

Postcard Stories, by Jan Carson

The Secret Box, by Daina Tabūna

POETRYANTHOLOGIES

The Emma Press Anthology of Aunts

The Emma Press Anthology of Love

Some Cannot Be Caught: The Emma Press Book of Beasts

In Transit: Poems of Travel

THEEMMAPRESSPICKS

DISSOLVE to: L.A., by James Trevelyan

Meat Songs, by Jack Nicholls

Bezdelki, by Carol Rumens

Birmingham Jazz Incarnation, by Simon Turner

POETRYBOOKSFORCHILDREN

Watcher of the Skies: Poems about Space and Aliens

Moon Juice, by Kate Wakeling

The Noisy Classroom, by Ieva Flamingo

POETRYANDARTSQUARES

AWOL, by John Fuller and Andrew Wynn Owen, illustrated by Emma Wright

Now You Can Look, by Julia Bird, illustrated by Anna Vaivare

‘If you’re for bed, remember not to leave any bread or milk on the table; it attracts the dead.’

Sonnet I.6, lines 5-6, The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer MariaRilke (trans. David Cook)

THEEMMAPRESS

First published in Great Britain in 2014 by the Emma Press Ltd

Reprinted in 2015, 2017, 2018

Poems copyright © Stephen Sexton 2014

Introduction copyright © Annie Freud 2014

All rights reserved.

The right of Stephen Sexton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

ISBN 978-1-910139-03-5

EPUBISBN 978-1-912915-65-1

A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.

Printed and bound in Great Britain

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INTRODUCTION

The first thing that strikes the reader about Oils, Stephen Sexton’s sixteen-poem pamphlet, is that it reads like a full and mature collection. This may be due in part to its marvellous evocation of ancient civilisations, its ingenious use of myth and folktale, its unabashed immersion in the arts, the scope and seriousness of its subject matter, its sheer ambition