Winterreis by David Batten
Charting winter journeys, travelling to funerals and to the anniversary of a young death, David Batten reflects on loss in its many guises. Facing grief with a meticulous attention, whether it strikes in close family or political reality, Winterreis touches on truths as urgent now as when Willhelm Muller wrote his own Winterreise, a poetry cycle with which Batten resonates and echoes, or when Franz Schubert composed his song cycle of the same name, based on Muller's poems. The poems here become an "assembly of the omens encountered while wandering in contemporary Europe..." and a commemoration of those making music and poetry, who too often die young. Poignant, cathartic and ultimately life-affirming, this is considered poetry written with grace.
David Batten studied history and ideology at Hull College and Hull University, where he took his Master's degree, and also played back row for Hull & East Riding RFC, before rejoining family in Gwynedd, teaching at Coleg Meirion Dwyfor, then working in community development in North Wales. His debut collection Transhumance was published in 2016; a pamphlet, Storme Passage in 2017; followed by Untergang in 2018, all published by Cinnamon Press. His first prose work, Rotterdam, is part autobiography, part philosophical reflection. He now lives in the Aveyron in southern France.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781788641067 |
| ISBN 10 | 178864106X |
| Title | Winterreis |
| Author | David Batten |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cinnamon Press |
| Year published | 2021-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 54 |
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