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The Sun is Open (Paperback)
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The Sun is Open (Paperback)
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List price R309
Loot Price R251
Discovery Miles 2 510
You Save R58 (19%)
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Winner of the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize
Winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize The Sun is
Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials
related to the life and death of the author's father, who was
murdered by the IRA outside their Belfast home in 1984. Moving
between child and adult voices, past and present, this startlingly
innovative debut attempts to decode the fragments left behind and,
with them, piece together a history and a life. 'Each page of The
Sun Is Open is rich with exquisite and surprising language, pain,
and wisdom.' - Maggie Nelson 'The Sun is Open employs a grammar in
which everything is significant, from Wendy Houses, to the very
hairs of your head, to the poetry of First Aid instructions, to
slaters. This is meticulous and painstaking - sometimes pain-making
work - making the words fit the columns, be they inches of
newsprint or entries in an Account Book, negotiating or nudging the
meanings into alternative senses. A series of ethical
considerations and transactions, credits and debits that sometimes
demand to be accounted for, or judged, or at least spoken of in the
light of whatever the forensics might or might never unfold.' -
Ciaran Carson Poetry book of the month - the Observer A TLS book of
the year
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