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Collected Poems

  • ISBN-13: 9781784106997
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Marius Kociejowski
  • Price: AUD $32.99
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  • Local release date: 25/03/2019
  • Format: Undefined (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 112 pages Weight: 200g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Two decades ago a critic characterised Marius Kociejowski as a poet `whose imagination prowls the geographical boundaries of western culture'. He has a Polish name, was born in Canada, and lives in London where he collects other exiles, listens to their lives and writes them up. God's Zoo (Carcanet, 2014), Evan Jones describes as `a world journey through London's exiled and emigre artists, writers, poets and musicians'. He likes middle-length forms, less the lyric than the epylion, the epistle, dramatic monologue and eclogue. One of his tutelary spirits is the great Leopardi. Music is everywhere, notably Chopin and George Sand: music seems to propose some of the forms he chooses and how he modulates them. `All parts give meaning to the whole,' he says, and proves it again and again. Kociejowski has produced over the last five decades a fine, refined body of work which this book celebrates.
Marius Kociejowski was born in 1949 and lives in London. His Greville Press pamphlet Coast was awarded the Cheltenham Prize in 1991. Anvil published Doctor Honoris Causa and Music's Bride. As well as his two collections of poems he has published two books on Syria, The Street Philosopher and The Holy Fool (2006) and The Pigeon Wars of Damascus (2010). He is a frequent contributor to PN Review.
* Kociejowski is a Cheltenham Prize-winning poet, essayist and travel writer living in London. * The work includes dramatic monologues, one of which takes on the voice of the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. * Includes meditations on relationships between teacher and pupil; one poem focuses on the relationship between the dying Chopin and George Sand. * A number of shorter poems which are based on musical themes. * Kociejowski is originally from Canada, where his Polish father migrated - his work often looks at exile and émigré artists, writers and musicians.
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