Jilted City

Name: Jilted City
Brand: Carcanet Press Ltd
SKU: 9781857549683
Price: 1800 KES
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ISBN: 9781857549683

by Patrick McGuinness

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1857549686

ISBN-13 9781857549683

Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd

Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 28th, 2010

Print length 76 Pages

Weight 104 grams

Dimensions 21.50 x 14.00 x 0.60 cms

Product Classification: Poetry / poems by individual poets Poetry by individual poets

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Features poems that inhabit in-between-places, when a border is being crossed, a word is slipping into another language, when memory is translating loss. This collection finds unforeseen connections between place and displacement.

The poems in Jilted City inhabit in-between-places, when a border is being crossed, a word is slipping into another language, when memory is translating loss. From ‘Stations where the train doesn’t stop’ in ‘Blue Guide’, following a train journey through Belgium, to ‘City of Lost Walks’, English versions of a dissident Romanian poet whose ‘poetry fails to register except in the form of an omission’, McGuinness explores transition and translation, the afterlife of absences. Wit and paradox are at the heart of a collection that finds unforeseen connections between place and displacement. 'Running through Jilted City is an acrid tenderness that is entirely itself, its jokes dry, aching with loss.' – George SzirtesCover image: Alun Hemming, Urban Vulture. Reproduced by kind permission of the artist. Cover design StephenRaw.com

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