The Glass Aisle
The Glass Aisle
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The Glass Aisle by Paul Henry
From the sea of the poet's childhood to the stillness of a canal walked in middle age, The Glass Aisle moves between rage and stillness, past and present, music and silence. In the book's title poem, a telephone engineer repairs a line that crosses a canal to the site of an old workhouse. Tormented by the voices of former inmates, he unwittingly connects the centuries, setting free the Victorian ghosts of poacher John Moonlight, lone parent Mary Thomas, and a host of others who haunt the poem's present-day walker. Elsewhere in this moving collection, love poems, elegies and familiar coastline visitors, Brown Helen, Catrin Sands. define a nineteen-sixties childhood; a long poem, 'The Hesitant Song', orchestrates silence while playing the sea's soft pedal to convey the loss of a mother's songs. Lyrical and humane in its observations, The Glass Aisle is rich in the hallmarks readers have come to admire in Henry's poetry.From the sea of the poet's childhood to the stillness of a canal walked in middle age, The Glass Aisle moves between rage and stillness, past and present, music and silence. In the book's title poem, a telephone engineer repairs a line that crosses a canal to the site of an old workhouse. Tormented by the voices of former inmates, he unwittingly connects the centuries, setting free the Victorian ghosts of poacher John Moonlight, lone parent Mary Thomas, and a host of others who haunt the poem's present-day walker. Elsewhere in this moving collection, love poems, elegies and familiar coastline visitors, Brown Helen, Catrin Sands. define a nineteen-sixties childhood; a long poem, 'The Hesitant Song', orchestrates silence while playing the sea's soft pedal to convey the loss of a mother's songs. Lyrical and humane in its observations, The Glass Aisle is rich in the hallmarks readers have come to admire in Henry's poetry.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781781724408 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781724407 |
| Title | The Glass Aisle |
| Author | Paul Henry |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Seren |
| Year published | 2018-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |