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Second Collection
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Theatre
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- ISBN 9781800175112
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025
The Banquet explores the fragile, intricate links between language and longing - how words can reconstruct great cities out of memories and dreams, tear them apart, or carry them from one place to another, as if each city, house and chamber were made of sonic and visual images rather than walls and bricks. Moving between the worlds of philosophy, theatre and poetry - from Dante's Florence to Wittgenstein's Cambridge; from Tom Stoppard's theatre stage to the harsh landscapes of Rimbaud's poetry - The Banquet explores the ever-growing tensions between words and action, knowledge and ethics.
The Banquet explores the fragile, intricate links between language and longing - how words can reconstruct great cities out of memories and dreams, tear them apart, or carry them from one place to another, as if each city, house and chamber were made of sonic and visual images rather than walls and bricks. Moving between the worlds of philosophy, theatre and poetry - from Dante's Florence to Wittgenstein's Cambridge; from Tom Stoppard's theatre stage to the harsh landscapes of Rimbaud's poetry - The Banquet explores the ever-growing tensions between words and action, knowledge and ethics.
Stav Poleg's debut poetry collection, The City (Carcanet, 2022) was chosen for the Financial Times'
Best Summer Books 2022, and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney
Poetry Prize for a First Collection, 2023. Her poetry has appeared on
both sides of the Atlantic, in The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, PN Review and elsewhere. A selection of her work is featured in New Poetries VIII (Carcanet,
2021). Her graphic-novel installation, 'Dear Penelope: Variations on an
August Morning', created with artist Laura Gressani, was acquired by
the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Her theatre work was read
at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and the Shunt Vaults, London, and
most recently at Kettle's Yard gallery, Cambridge. She serves on the
editorial board of Magma Poetry magazine and teaches for the Poetry
School on a range of subjects including poetry inspired by the Divine
Comedy, the Odyssey and the cinema of Fellini. She lives in Cambridge,
UK.
