Spillway by Ian Pople
Ian Pople is a man of the world. He has travelled and taught in the UK, Greece, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia. His poems explore England, the larger world, and how changing perspectives readjust the sense of England and of home. They deal with borders, crossings, closing boundaries. They are about transitions in space and time, the ways life and relationships change and adapt to illness, love, estrangement, and loss. The traveller changes identities as he moves, responding to different surroundings, and the early poems collected here provide a varied retrospect, moving through Africa, Europe, and Asia--so that we read the more recent work from a different perspective. The travel poems explore the range of reactions, appropriations, and misappropriations as physical and psychological boundaries are crossed. More recent writing responds to music and the visual arts, using assemblages or bricolage to convey the painfully familiar experience of displacement, dislocation. There are poems that answer back to figures from jazz history, Roland Kirk, Dupree Bolton, and Pat Metheny among them.
'Ian Pople writes poems of such intense observation they amount to a kind of graceIn his concise idylls, undeceived odes, and scrupulous ekphrastics, the sometimes ominous and always indigenous details resolve as if by action-at-a-distance to a mystery that never decays into cynicism or belief. It feels suddenly timely as well as sustaining to have his vision assembled in a major selection at last.' - Douglas Crase';[an] acute eye for the detail of the human world as well as the natural one' - Ian McMillan
Ian Pople was born in Ipswich and educated at the British Council, Athens, and the universities of Aston, Manchester and Nottingham. He has taught English in secondary and higher education in the UK, Sudan, Greece and Saudi Arabia. He taught at the University of Manchester for over twenty years.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781800170223 |
| ISBN 10 | 180017022X |
| Title | Spillway |
| Author | Ian Pople |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 196 |
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