Poetry Book Society Autumn 2022 Bulletin E-Book

• Herausgeber: Poetry Book Society
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Seitenzahl: 49

Beschreibung

The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems from all the selected poets, alongside exclusive interviews, insightful reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter. The Autumn 2022 Bulletin features Sandeep Parmar, Zaffar Kunial, Mark Pajak, Don Paterson, Alycia Pirmohamed, Jorie Graham, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata translated by Marilyn Hacker.

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CONTENTS

CHOICE

Sandeep Parmar • Faust • Shearsman Books

RECOMMENDATIONS

Zaffar Kunial • England’s Green • Faber

Mark Pajak • Slide • Cape

Don Paterson • The Arctic • Faber

Alycia Pirmohamed • Another Way to Split Water • Polygon

SPECIAL COMMENDATION

Jorie Graham • [To] The Last [Be] Human • Carcanet

TRANSLATION CHOICE

Vénus Khoury-Ghata • The Water PeopleTranslated by Marilyn Hacker • Poetry Translation Centre

PAMPHLET CHOICE

Shane McCrae •Hex and Other Poems • Bad Betty Press

CHOICE SELECTORSRECOMMENDATIONSPECIAL COMMENDATION

MONA ARSHI& ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU

TRANSLATION SELECTOR

HARRY JOSEPHINE GILES

PAMPHLET SELECTORS

NINA MINGYA POWLES& ARJI MANUELPILLAI

CONTRIBUTORS

SOPHIE O'NEILLKYM DEYNLEDBURY CRITICS

EDITORIAL & DESIGN

ALICE KATE MULLEN

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LETTER FROM THE PBS

It feels so strange writing this Autumn letter at the start of the summer holidays, but such is the nature of the membership and our selections! I am trying hard not to comment on the weather.

We hope you enjoy this season’s selections. A mix of well-established and newer poets, each with something new to say and for us readers to contemplate. Sandeep Parmar uses Goethe’s Faust legend as her primary source for the Choice selection, reflecting on the act of striving, she explains more in her commentary.

It’s farewell and thank you to the wonderful Nick Makoha as pamphlet selector and a warm welcome to Arji Manuelpillai who has joined Nina Mingya Powles in this Autumn selection.

We have a few key live events already programmed for our northern members and friends (or those who are looking for an excuse to travel to our beautiful region). On the 6th of October we’ll co-host an in-person PBS Showcase at Newcastle University in partnership with NCLA featuring Don Paterson and Alycia Pirmohamed and on the 16th of October we’ll be at Durham Book Festival presenting Degna Stone, Don Paterson and Zaffar Kunial.

If you haven’t already purchased the Forward Prize shortlisted titles, please don’t miss our Forward Prize Bundle Offer. Members can enjoy all ten shortlisted books for only £82.50, including free UK postage. We wish all the shortlisted poets the best of luck!

SOPHIE O’NEILL

PBS & INPRESS DIRECTOR

PBS CHOICE: SANDEEP PARMAR

Sandeep Parmar is Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool where she co-directs Liverpool’s Centre for New and International Writing. She holds a PhD from University College London and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her books include Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern, an edition of the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees (Carcanet, 2011), and two books of her own poetry published by Shearsman: The Marble Orchard and Eidolon, winner of the Ledbury Forte Prize for Best Second Collection. She also edited the Selected Poems of Nancy Cunard (Carcanet, 2016). Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Statesman, the Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement. She is a BBC New Generation Thinker and co-founder of the Ledbury Poetry Critics scheme for poetry critics of colour. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.

FAUST

SHEARSMAN | £10.95 | PBS PRICE £8.22– PBS CHOICE, AUTUMN 2022

Faust is the name of the third full length collection by Sandeep Parmar. In this new collection she utilises Goethe’s Faust legend as a tool and a lens to examine the migrant’s journey of belonging and remembering. In Goethe’s story he famously makes a pact with the devil’s agent Mephistopheles. Parmar overlays the work of this classic legend with poems and travels the globe.

Parmar uses a variety of forms including prose pieces and abstract voices, as well as lyric segments to push open questions about the psychic cost of migration. The collection is animated by a longer incantatory sequence which links the properties of the earth. Wheat and grain carry the weight of history, of a Punjabi’s migration journey to the body of the traveller. Some of these poems are spell-like.

Like her other two books, Eidolon and The Marble Orchard, nothing is stable in this work, words are ever shifting and moving quickly across the page. The central spirit of the book is a certain restlessness taking form in the migrants’ movements and resisting traditional linearity or a fixed destination. It’s a remarkable book of poems where thought travels very quickly leading to an intuitive delightfulness in landing on some extraordinary lines of poetry:

Kernels of rain            or seeds of rain

           is how raindrops translate

so that even the rain is not itself

This method of crafting means that Parmar is discovering whilst she writes. There are larger associations that Parmar is interested in relating to the materiality versus the spirit.