Not Quite Without a Moon by Ian Mcdonald
Ian McDonald's Collected Poems (2018) was marked by a late flush of exceptional new poems that addressed both the infirmities of ageing as well as its continuing joys. That flow of memory has continued, addressing a long, rich life from a childhood in Antigua, youth in Trinidad and an adult life lived in Guyana. It was not to be halted by anything as malleable as the word "collected", and this collection of poems from the past four years is more than just a "brawta" to bring back from the market to enjoy. There is the mystery of why certain memories, dormant for decades, suddenly emerge, like a childhood nightmare still as real 80 years later, or how in one's own elder years, recollections of one's parents take on a pertinence and vividness of presence. But it is not merely the past that revisits but an immersion in the present that has never been more real and precious in every respect. If the world has become, increasingly, one's house and garden, its inhabitants one's wife, children and grandchildren, it is experienced as not a jot less rich than anything in the past -indeed ever more precious for its evanescence.
Ian McDonald was born in Trinidad in 1933. He read History and Cambridge and was a gifted tennis player and captained both the Cambridge and the West Indies Davis cup team. He first went to Guyana in 1955 and spent his working life there, as CEO of Bookers. He is the author of four poetry collections, and editor of two anthologies of West Indian writing. He now lives in Canada.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845235581 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845235584 |
| Title | Not Quite Without a Moon |
| Author | Ian Mcdonald |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Peepal Tree Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2023-01-26 |
| Number of pages | 84 |
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