Will You Walk a Little Faster? Paperback / softback
by Penelope Shuttle
Paperback / softback
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Penelope Shuttle's collection explores cities (London, Bristol) on foot and via inward exploration, drawing on architecture, history and personal memory.
These are poems drawn from the flipside of experience, undermining and rebuilding syntax in order to precipitate language, and, in the main, abjuring punctuation.
The poems also engage with inward exploration where both active and meditative thinking seek a vulnerable and temporary equilibrium; poems more interested in framing questions than arriving at answers.
The volatile and tactile realities and delusions of being in the world direct much of the language's traffic here; there's a commingling of sadness and wry humour in Shuttle's travels through our physical and metaphysical worlds.
Pared-back imagery and lyric purpose are embodied here throughout in the work of a poet who agrees with Ekbert Faas's comment: 'as soon as you have a new syntax, you have a new way of breathing, and as soon as you have that you have a new consciousness'.
Will You Walk a Little Faster was Penelope Shuttle's first new book-length collection after her Bloodaxe retrospective, Unsent: New & Selected Poems (2012), and was published on her 70th birthday.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Publication Date:12/05/2017
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- ISBN:9781780373539
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Publication Date:12/05/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781780373539