Listening In
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1988531780
ISBN-13
9781988531786
Publisher
Otago University Press
Imprint
Otago University Press
Country of Manufacture
NZ
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 1st, 2019
Print length
74 Pages
Weight
214 grams
Dimensions
16.50 x 23.40 x 0.80 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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In this original second collection, Lynley Edmeades turns her attention to ideas of sound, listening and speech. Listening In is full of the verbal play and linguistic experimentation that characterised her first collection, but it also shows the poet pushing the form into new territories. Her poems show, often sardonically, how language can be undermined: linguistic registers are rife with uncertainties, ambiguities and accidental comedy. She shuffles and reshuffles statements and texts, and assumes multiple perspectives with the skill of a ventriloquist. These poems probe political rhetoric and linguistic slippages with a sceptical eye, and highlight the role of listening -- or the errors of listening -- in everyday communication.
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