Dry Stone Work by Brian Johnstone


ISBN
9781908376053
Published
Released
01 / 10 / 2014
Binding
Paperback
Pages
103
Dimensions
138 x 215mm

A grounded yet playful collection from an assured poet, flexing his muscles into newer territory. As well as the deep lineage of rural landscapes that populated previous collections, here Johnstone treats us to an extended trip to the circus, where the glitz and thrill of the big top and its stunts are peeled back to allow us into physical and emotional rigour that forms the show's scaffold.

Elsewhere poems transport you more literally through film and TV history, around Europe and into the past, again balancing between illusion and the tension that supports it in the more mundane real world. And throughout, the tone and language also plays an ingenious balancing act between the structured, rhyming and informal.

This is a personal and expansive collection, honest and exploratory.
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