Bloodaxe Books | Launch reading by David Constantine, Kerry Hardie and Bill Herbert @BloodaxeBooks | Uploaded November 2020 | Updated October 2024, 12 minutes ago.
David Constantine, Kerry Hardie and W.N. (Bill) Herbert celebrated the publication of their new poetry collections from Bloodaxe at this live streamed event, hosted by editor Neil Astley. To order copies of the poets’ books direct from Bloodaxe, please click on these links:
David Constantine: Belongings
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Kerry Hardie: Where Now Begins
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W.N. Herbert: The Wreck of the Fathership
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David Constantine: Belongings
David Constantine’s poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. His title, Belongings, signals that these are poems concerned with our possessions and with what possesses us, with where we belong. Another kind of belonging is also challenged: our relationship with the planet to which we belong, but which does not belong to us.
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Kerry Hardie: Where Now Begins
Kerry Hardie's new poems are the work of time and the cycles of growth, they are songs about saints and scholars, the natural world, exaltation and suffering and ordinary joy, the quiet accumulation of the slowly learned lessons of a lived life. There are narratives of the wondrous bewilderments of life as well as homages to the dead and the dying.
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W.N. Herbert: The Wreck of the Fathership
When Bill Herbert was made Dundee Makar (or City Laureate), he intended to write about his home town in both its native tongues. Then within six months his much-loved father died, and that civic idyll was thrown into crisis. This is his Dundonian Book of the Dead, in which he explores both his own grief and the encroachment of a new intolerance.
David Constantine, Kerry Hardie and W.N. (Bill) Herbert celebrated the publication of their new poetry collections from Bloodaxe at this live streamed event, hosted by editor Neil Astley. To order copies of the poets’ books direct from Bloodaxe, please click on these links:
David Constantine: Belongings
bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/belongings-1235
Kerry Hardie: Where Now Begins
bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/where-now-begins-1240
W.N. Herbert: The Wreck of the Fathership
bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/the-wreck-of-the-fathership-1234
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David Constantine: Belongings
David Constantine’s poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. His title, Belongings, signals that these are poems concerned with our possessions and with what possesses us, with where we belong. Another kind of belonging is also challenged: our relationship with the planet to which we belong, but which does not belong to us.
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Kerry Hardie: Where Now Begins
Kerry Hardie's new poems are the work of time and the cycles of growth, they are songs about saints and scholars, the natural world, exaltation and suffering and ordinary joy, the quiet accumulation of the slowly learned lessons of a lived life. There are narratives of the wondrous bewilderments of life as well as homages to the dead and the dying.
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W.N. Herbert: The Wreck of the Fathership
When Bill Herbert was made Dundee Makar (or City Laureate), he intended to write about his home town in both its native tongues. Then within six months his much-loved father died, and that civic idyll was thrown into crisis. This is his Dundonian Book of the Dead, in which he explores both his own grief and the encroachment of a new intolerance.
