Near-Life Experience by Rowland Bagnall

Near-Life Experience by Rowland Bagnall

The poems in Near-Life Experience are curious about the present moment, its weather and animals, its objects and things. They want to make it real in language, catching it before it vanishes. Documenting landscapes, paintings, insects and trees, Near-Life Experience offers a world where understanding is subverted by the day’s distractions and the unexpected shapes of the imagination. How do I relate to this? What does it mean? What’s happening, exactly? Does experience experience me? With descriptive precision and inventiveness, the poet finds humour and panic at the edges of the actual. The poems measure expanding and contracting times, birthdays, seasons, climate breakdown, witnessing the moment and its ‘sheer / ongoing changes’.

'Rowland Bagnall shows us that a poet can also be an architect, film director and cubist painter; his poetics shine an astonishing light onto questions concerning time and space' - Isabel Galleymore;'The poems in Near-Life Experience are so fully and intensely realised that to enter the collection feels like entering a living landscape.' - Caleb Klaces;'There is so much pleasure in this collection, and so little anxiety.' - Laura Scott

Rowland Bagnall's first collection, A Few Interiors, was published by Carcanet in 2019. His poetry, reviews and essays have appeared in Poetry London, PN Review, The Art Newspaper and elsewhere. He lives and works in Oxford.

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ISBN 13	9781800173903
ISBN 10	1800173903
Title	Near-Life Experience
Author	Rowland Bagnall
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published	2024-03-28
Number of pages	88
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