Poetry Book Society Winter 2021 Bulletin E-Book
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- Herausgeber: Poetry Book Society
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
"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. You can find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk. "
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CONTENTS
CHOICE
Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo • Like a Tree, Walking • Carcanet
RECOMMENDATIONS
Polly Atkin • Much With Body • Seren
Harry Josephine Giles • Deep Wheel Orcadia • Picador
Lila Matsumoto • Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water • Prototype
Stephanie Sy-Quia • Amnion • Granta
SPECIAL COMMENDATION
Ian Duhig • New and Selected Poems • Picador
TRANSLATION CHOICE
Tua Forsström • I Walked On Into The Forest: Poems For A Little Girl Translated by David McDuff • Bloodaxe Books
PAMPHLET CHOICE
Fathima Zahra •Sargam / Swargam• ignitionpress
WILD CARD
Owen Lowery • Crash Wake and other poems • Carcanet
CHOICE SELECTORSRECOMMENDATIONSPECIAL COMMENDATION
SARAH HOWE& ANDREW McMILLAN
TRANSLATION SELECTOR
LORETTA COLLINS KLOBAH
PAMPHLET SELECTORS
MARY JEAN CHAN& NICK MAKOHA
WILD CARD SELECTOR
ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU
CONTRIBUTORS
SOPHIE O'NEILLNATHANIEL SPAINKYM DEYNLEDBURY CRITICS
EDITORIAL & DESIGN
ALICE KATE MULLEN
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LETTER FROM THE PBS
I am wondering what life will be like this Winter when the Bulletin drops through people’s doors? As I write, COP26 is about to take place, environment is top of the agenda alongside the pandemic. Weatherwise, the north wind has returned with a vengeance this weekend, reminding me how bracing and painful walking the North East Coast can be, but so beautiful and wild too. If, for whatever reason, we are all home a bit more come the winter, I can think of no greater pleasure than hunkering down and getting swept away with this season’s collections. There is such a range of writing and variety of subject, language and style in these nine selections, they are books to be read, mulled over and read again. We were so sad to hear of the passing of Owen Lowery in May, whose posthumous collection is this season’s Wild Card Choice.
A very special thank you to the Ledbury Poetry Critics; Gazelle Mba, Dave Coates, Pratyusha, Shalini Sengupta, Shash Trevett and Maggie Wang who have provided many of the reviews at the end of this Bulletin. And a HUGE thank you to the wonderful Andrew McMillan who has not only been a selector extraordinaire, but a huge champion of the PBS while working with us. Andrew’s time as a selector is up, and he’ll be replaced by the brilliant Anthony Anaxagorou. The equally inspiring Caleb Femi, who has just won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, joins as our new Wild Card Selector and Harry Josephine Giles as our Translation selector. We are really looking forward to working with them and discovering their selections in Spring 2022.
We have included a Christmas catalogue with all Bulletins – please do consider gifting poetry books or a gift membership to your friends and family this Christmas. If you would like any advice or suggestions for books as gifts, please do get in touch through our socials, email or telephone. We attended the BBC Contains Strong Language poetry festival in September and it was such a delight to meet the poetry community again, recommend books and discuss our favourites – we would really relish the opportunity to speak directly to as many of you as possible and to make some personalised recommendations.
And finally don’t forget to join us on the 25th November at 7pm on Youtube for our PBS Winter Showcase with Newcastle University featuring Hannah Lowe and Raymond Antrobus. Book your free ticket at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.
SOPHIE O’NEILL
PBS & INPRESS DIRECTOR
PBS CHOICE: VAHNI CAPILDEO
Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo FRSL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. The most recent of Capildeo’s eight books and eight pamphlets are Like a Tree, Walking (Carcanet, 2021) and The Dusty Angel (Oystercatcher, 2021). Their interests include silence, plurilingualism, traditional masquerade, and multidisciplinary collaboration. They are Writer in Residence and Professor at the University of York, a Visiting Scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford.
LIKE A TREE, WALKING
CARCANET | £11.99 | PBS PRICE £9.00– PBS CHOICE, WINTER 2021
The title of Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo’s Like a Tree, Walking alludes to the passage in the Gospel of Mark where Jesus performs the miracle of restoring a blind man to sight. With unaccustomed eyes, the man sees the world as if through a haze of strangeness: “And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.” That uncanny image – of the tree that impossibly uproots itself to stride about, or humans that move like entities rooted in the earth – speaks to these poems’ sense of a world turned upside-down, of walking without moving:
O destination I implore thee not to be detention
nor to be detonation(‘Towards an Unwalking’).
They are coloured in more or less explicit ways by the experiences of pandemic and lockdown. The poet invites us to reconsider what is “essential”, what is “clean”, in the new world we inhabit now:
The inessential park is closed.
Its benches clean of homeless
bodies hurting less in sleep.
Like a Tree, Walking marks a shift of pace next to Capildeo’s recent volumes. In their loving attentiveness to specific landscapes, its poems turn towards ecopoetics and psychogeography, but with an interest in “queering” the gendered and racialised expectations of traditional nature writing.
The book’s second section features an interlocking series of numbered ‘Walk’, ‘Lullaby’ and ‘Nocturne’ poems, which traverse the hilly byways of Trinidad’s Port of Spain: “Blue is both an expectation and a thirst / during this climb”. Other poems attend to the minute textures and soundscapes around English trees:
The lichen is numerous-fingered. If I could have translated pianopractice into botany... The lichen is in A major.
A poem like ‘Windrush Reflections’ expands our focus, with its evocative tapestry of migrant voices exploring their roots and routes. These are poems that cannot forget how “some bodies are political”.
