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Travel Light Travel Dark

English

By (author): John Agard

John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In this new symphonic collection, Travel Light Travel Dark, Agard casts his unique spin on the intermingling strands of British history, and leads us into metaphysical and political waters. Cross-cultural connections are played out in a variety of voices and cadences. Prospero and Caliban have a cricket match encounter, recounted in calypso-inspired rhythms, and in the long poem, Water Music of a Different Kind, the incantatory orchestration of the Atlantic's middle passage becomes a moving counterpoint to Handel's Water Music. Travel Light Travel Dark brings a mythic dimension to the contemporary and opens with a meditation on the enigma of colour. Water often appears as a metaphoric riff within the fabric of the collection, as sugar cane tells its own story in 'Sugar Cane's Saga' and water speaks for itself in a witty debate with wine, inspired by the satirical tradition of the goliards, wandering clerics of the Middle Ages. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 30 May 2013
  • Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781852249915

About John Agard

Poet performer anthologist John Agard was born in Guyana and came to Britain in 1977. His many books include eight from Bloodaxe From the Devils Pulpit (1997) Weblines (2000) We Brits (2006) Alternative Anthem: Selected Poems (2009) Clever Backbone (2009) Travel Light Travel Dark (2013) Playing the Ghost of Maimonides (2016) and The Coming of the Little Green Man (2018). He is the winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2012 presented to him by The Queen on 12 March 2013. He won the Casa de las Américas Prize in 1982 a Paul Hamlyn Award in 1997 and a Cholmondeley Award in 2004. We Brits was shortlisted for the 2007 Decibel Writer of the Year Award and he has won the Guyana Prize twice for his From the Devil's Pulpit and Weblines. The Coming of the Little Green Man is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. He lives with the poet Grace Nichols and family in Sussex; they received the CLPE Poetry Award 2003 for their childrens anthology Under the Moon and Over the Sea (Walker Books).

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