Shortlisted for The Felix Dennis (Forward) Prize for Best First
Collection 2017. Raking Light is Eric Langley's debut collection of
poems. Characterised by his rigorous fascination with language's
latent etymologies and semantic layers, Langley's poems take their
cue from the art conservation technique of 'raking light', in which
an oblique beam is thrown across the surface of a picture to expose
its textures and overlays. Under raked light, paint reveals its
damage and deterioration, its craquelure and canvas-warp, and
discloses a backstory of abandoned intentions. With his
attentiveness to resonance and echo, Langley picks up on lost
meanings and buried contradictions in language, probing its
abandoned significances. Finding traces of obscured sense or
inarticulacy, his verse picks at words to test their efficacy and
authenticity, feeling out their substance, proving their worth.
These are poems - elegies, love lyrics - concerned with
miscommunication, with intentions gone astray, with loss and the
uncertainties inherent in interaction. They are excited and
exciting, defusing and detonating by turns the 'hectic honeyed
hand-grenades / in amongst your alphabets'.
General
| Imprint: |
Carcanet Press Ltd
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| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
April 2017 |
| Authors: |
Eric Langley
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 135 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
136 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78410-332-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-78410-332-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781784103323 |
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