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Body Language

Jon Stallworthy
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  • ISBN 9781857547467
  • Weight: 86g
  • Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Sep 2004
  • Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Body language and the body of language—from the first words in the first garden to the last words of last night’s lovers—are the entwined themes of Jon Stallworthy’s new collection of poems, his first since The Guest from the Future (1995), described by Poetry Review as ‘snatches of radio traffic from this century’s storms, true stories... and some of the storytelling inspired’.

The centrepiece of the book is ‘Skyhorse’, an ambitious poem for voices that finds in the White Horse on the Berkshire Downs an enduring presence through the turbulence of three millennia of English history. Generations of devotees and riders of this English Pegasus speak of bodies changed by love and war, leading to the book’s second part, a candid, passionate sequence of elegies and love poems.
About Jon Stallworthy
Jon Stallworthy, born in 1935, was educated at Rugby, in the Royal West African Frontier Force, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize of Poetry. A Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature, he is a Professor of English Literature at Oxford. He has published seven books of poetry. His biography of Wilfred Owen won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the W. H. Smith Literary Award, and the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He recently published a life of Louis MacNeice. He has edited Owen's Complete Poems and Fragments, Henry Reed's Collected Poems, and several anthologies.

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