We Go On by Kerry Hardie
This is a book about the irreducible core of what it is to be human in a world that changes constantly yet repeats and repeats. It uses images that speak to a place in us that does not depend on fashion but braves that over-used word 'archetypal'. It is mostly specific to a landscape the author knows very well yet sometimes ventures beyond, always with the awareness that fear is our constant companion, but also joy. Its title holds an echo of Beckett: 'I must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on' (from his novel 'The Unnameable'), and holds something of this despair, while holding to the irrational conviction of 'being enclosed by light'. Her work, as Claire Askew has noted, is 'a dark and gorgeous hymn to mortality'. It recognises that all localness is part of humanness; that the dominance of one sort of humanness to the exclusion of another sort diminishes all humanness, representing both loss and the degradation of the whole.Kerry Hardie's Where Now Begins is full of a dark, exact lyricism.. These, certainly, are poems which speak skilfully to (and from) our times.'
-- Seán Hewitt * The Irish Times *Kerry Hardie was born in 1951, grew up in County Down., and now lives in Co. Kilkenny. She published six collections with Gallery Press in Ireland: A Furious Place (1996), Cry for the Hot Belly (2000), The Sky Didn’t Fall (2003), The Silence Came Close (2006), Only This Room (2009) and The Ash and the Oak and the Wild Cherry Tree (2012). Her Selected Poems was published in Ireland by Gallery and in Britain by Bloodaxe in 2011. Her most recent collections, The Zebra Stood in the Night (2014), Where Now Begins (2020) and We Go On (2024) are published by Bloodaxe in Britain and Ireland. The Zebra Stood in the Night was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780377018 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780377010 |
| Titel | We Go On |
| Autor | Kerry Hardie |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2024-02-22 |
| Seitenanzahl | 80 |
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