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In My Father's House

  • ISBN-13: 9781857547665
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By David Kinloch
  • Price: AUD $24.99
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  • Local release date: 27/11/2005
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 128 pages Weight: 127g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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From a quick-tempered singing grandmother to a performance of The Mikado in an African village: David Kinloch's exploration of his relationship with his father is both unexpected and affectionate. An extended sequence of poems moves from personal memory to reflections on the values embodied in such cultural father-figures as the explorer David Livingstone and the Irish patriot Roger Casement. Translations of poems by Paul Celan and others into vivid Scots weave through the sequence, illuminating the disturbing connections between patriarchy and twentieth-century violence. In contrast, moving and humorous 'dissections' of adult relationships evoke images of the body both scientific and spiritual, culminating in a long narrative poem that celebrates the loving relationship between two seventeenth-century diplomats and doctors, against the background of the bustling city of Constantinople.
David Kinloch was born in Glasgow in 1959 and is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde. He is the co-founder of the poetry magazine Verse. Carcanet also publishes the poet's previous collection, Un Tour d'Ecosse (2001).
Table of Contents In My Father's House I Set Off Upon my Journey to the House of Shaws Loch Morar Avalon Ralph I Presume A Cardross Callas Pagliacci Tremmlin Tree The Cure 'Ye caun traistly' Psychomachia Song Daithfugue Thresholds The Earth Dies Too Roger Casement's Beard Tenebrae La Tour de Ganne Pictures at an Exhibition An Encounter Dancing in the Archives 'A dunnerin: it is' Ghost Seed 'In waters nor o thi future' Painting by Numbers 4 Shifts 'The skyrin' Remission Lazarus Assisi Belonging 'Because ye fund the trauchleskelf' Inquisition Impressions of Africa Tae Rimbaud A Walk 'Knock thi' Baines His Dissection
'A sparkling collection: full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness.' - Edwin Morgan.
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