Chance of a Storm
by
Rod Mengham
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1784100838
ISBN-13
9781784100834
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
Carcanet Poetry
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 26th, 2015
Print length
80 Pages
Weight
130 grams
Dimensions
21.80 x 13.60 x 1.00 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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In Chance of a Storm, poetry is language which exists in the world the same way as a painting or sculpture: 'Poems should be finished, but still be hot to the touch, giving a vivid sense of the thinking and feeling that went into their creation.'
For Rod Mengham sculpture and painting exist in the world the way poems do. He invokes the Polish sculptor Katarzyna Kobro, who believes that sculpture must be understood as part of the world around it. In Chance of a Storm, poetry is language that comes trailing bits of other forms of speech and writing. ‘Poems should be finished, but be still hot to the touch, giving a vivid sense of the thinking and feeling that went into their creation,’ he says. Drew Milne speaks of the poems’ ‘beautiful, belligerent laconicism’. While the lyric is central to Mengham’s work, it cannot shrug off the ambition of epic, scaled down but still latent. This telescoping informs the structure of these poems, a species of modernist fable.
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