Ink Stone by Jamie Mckendrick
The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. As one expert writes, 'the better the stone, the smaller and more consistent the particles will be and the denser the ink.' These new poems by Jamie McKendrick have a remarkable density of ink. They explore the grain, or 'tooth', of the natural world with unusual and discomforting detail at the same time as they chart the medium they work in - not only what the eye sees, but the eye itself: its structure and structurings. These poems open onto conflicting perspectives of home and abroad, the domestic and the wild, the natural and the uncanny, elegy and celebration.
"Acclaim for his previous collection, The Marble Fly (1997): 'Consistently excellent.. where McKendrick scores is in his expert salvaging of beauty from squalor, wit from adversity, delicacy from grossness.' Michael Hofmann
Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955. He is author of eight collections of poetry and has won the Forward Prize for Best Collection (The Marble Fly, 1997), the Hawthornden Prize (Out There, 2012) and the Cholmondeley Award (2019). He has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. His translations of Valerio Magrelli's poetry (The Embrace, 2009) won the Oxford-Weidenfeld and the John Florio prizes.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571215324 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571215327 |
| Title | Ink Stone |
| Author | Jamie Mckendrick |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2003-01-20 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (Poetry) 2003 |
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