She inserts the key
Burton, Marianne2013
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Poems of war are set agains poems of the natural world; a glimpse of soaring sparrowhawk is offset by an army cook lamenting the dead. Elsewhere, unusual objects spring to life - a pair of shoes haunts a murderer's moll, a cheese weeps for the calf whose milk it stole. Marianne Burton's vivid debut poetry collection, She Inserts the Key from Seren deals with both the domestic in her series 'Meditations on the Hours', and the wider world, as in 'Head on a Desert Road' with wars in both modern and ancient times. Casgliad cyntaf o gerddi bywiog Marianne Burton; mae'n ymdrin a sefyllfaoedd teuluol yn ogystal a'r byd ehangach, yn cynnwys rhyfeloedd heddiw ac yn y gorffennol. This is a startlingly good debut by Marianne Burton. Often dark, but with a sharply concise and compelling style, these poems draw you in with a look at this! urgency. This is a collection of voices: dodos and wallpaper chant obsessively, a cheese weeps for the calf whose milk it stole, a woman turned into soap dreams of her apotheosis as she washes into the sea. Uneasy yet fruitful juxtapositions abound: poems of war are set against poems of the natural world, a glimpse of a sparrowhawk is offset by a wider vision of the River flowing under the Bank of England . The series, Meditations on the Hours , that highlight the domestic and the personal, is at the core of this group of lyrical poems. The poet s language is both keen and voluptuous, contemplative and passionate.
She inserts the key / Marianne Burton.
Bridgend : Seren, 2013.
64 p. ; 22 cm.
9781781720387 (pbk)
821.92
English
2063365