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The Storm House

  • ISBN-13: 9781847770677
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Tim Liardet
  • Price: AUD $24.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 29/08/2011
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 66 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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In 2006 Tim Liardet's brother died at a young age in mysterious circumstances. The Storm House is a response to a mystery it knows can never be solved, a book-length elegy that is a grief-fugue and an exploration of the violent, loving, complex psychodrama of family. The two parts of the book form a powerful narrative of sorrow and anger, the events recollected in the first part retold, fragmented and illuminated by the sonnets of the second. Out of uncertainty, trauma and silence, the poet creates powerful poetry that finds catharsis in 'the spring and leap / of energy' of the creative life owed to the dead.
Tim Liardet is the author of seven collections of poetry. His third, Competing with the Piano Tuner (1998) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and longlisted for the Whitbread Poetry prize. His fifth, The Blood Chair (2006), won an Arts Council England Writer's Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize. Liardet is currently Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University and reviews for the guardian and elsewhere.
A book of poems unlike any other. --Peter Porter, author, The Rest on the Flight
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