Whose? by Michael Glover

Whose? by Michael Glover

There is always a moment - it comes to all of us, irrespective of race, class, religion and all the other what-nots - when you take someone aside and point out everything - everything that has gone wrong. And there is always so much of it, and it takes hours, days, of patient recitation, probably from a book, because it is far too long and involved - like a twisty rope, left out too long in the rain, behind the house, you know it, you have seen it with your own eyes - to commit to memory, even for an old hand such as myself. You completely and utterly exhaust yourself in the doing, you end up speechless, breathless, spent. I do anyway. One cannot walk away from one's nature.

In this monologue of a mind's slow dying, an actor, man of abundant words, faces his final audience: of himself. It is a face that he barely recognises through the mist of his own tragic decline.

Michael Glover is a Sheffield-born, London-based poet, art critic, editor and publisher who has contributed regularly to The Times, the Financial Times, the New Statesman and The Economist. He was born in Fir Vale, Sheffield, was educated at Firth Park Grammar School, and read English at Queens' College, Cambridge. He has been a London correspondent for ArtNews, New York. His international poetry journal, The Bow-Wow Shop (www.bowwowshop.org.uk) first went online in 2009. His most recent books are: Great Works: Encounters with Art (Prestel), Only So Much (his seventh collection of poetry), and Headlong into Pennilessness, a memoir of growing up in Sheffield. Two collections of poetry are coming soon: Hypothetical May Morning and The Book of Extremities.

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ISBN 13	9781999644093
ISBN 10	1999644093
Title	Whose?
Author	Michael Glover
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	1889 Books
Year published	2020-04-01
Number of pages	156
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