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Torchlight

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By (author): Peter Mcdonald

Torchlight explores the haunting persistence of memories, and the acts of remembrance which preserve and shape them. In his fifth collection, the Northern Irish poet Peter McDonald ranges across a wide poetic landscape, from Belfast in the troubled 1970s to contemporary England, from personal recollection to a fragment of Sappho's memory of her youth, eloquent across millennia; from ancient myth to rock music. At the centre of Torchlight is a major new translation of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, a Greek text which, in McDonald's hands, resonates with the concerns and discoveries of the book's shorter poems, and brings the mystery cult of Eleusis into an unnerving conjunction with the losses, recoveries and revelations elsewhere in the collection. McDonald's powerful lyric poetry is both complex and memorable, light and vigorous. His is an original and distinctive voice in Irish poetry, See more
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  • Publication Date: 24 Feb 2011
  • Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781847770912

About Peter Mcdonald

PETER McDONALD was born and grew up in Belfast. He won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry and an Eric Gregory Award. A University teacher he is currently Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language at Christ Church Oxford. A prominent critic of modern and contemporary poetry he has published a book on Louis MacNeice a study of Northern Irish poetry entitled Mistaken Identities and most recently Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill. He has edited MacNeice's Selected Plays and is also the editor of the forthcoming new edition of MacNeice's Collected Poems.

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