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The chemist with a sample analyses an aliquot of that sample, a
part of a part of a larger whole. The title of John Clegg's new
collection speaks to the poems' sense of being parts of larger
wholes, themselves parts of a larger whole... The scientific
knowledge and the sometimes old-fashioned diction that abound in
these poems are both part of worlds of reference in which
sequencing (narrative, historical, scientific) is crucial and
revelatory, as in the series of poems 'A Gene Sequence' which take
us from Codon to Coda via a number of -ines (Glycine, Asparagine,
Tyrosine etc). The complex exercise grows out of George Herbert
('What though my body run to dust?') and administrative duties at a
genomics conference in which the language spoken, the terms used,
find their way into the organising imagination and prosody of a
formidable, witty verse craftsman, with serious contemporary
concerns. Aliquot, John Clegg's second Carcanet book, is
storm-spooked and jumpy: haunted by jaguars and lynxes, its uneasy
silences broken by the retort of punt guns, lightning strikes, and
floodwater breaching defences. Among these stretches of foreboding
are moments of calm, especially arising out of the joy and rowdy
peace of parenthood. These poems are themselves aliquots, of a
realised, restive and unique individual world.
General
Imprint: |
Carcanet Press Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2022 |
Authors: |
John Clegg
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Dimensions: |
216 x 135 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
72 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-80017-235-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-80017-235-4 |
Barcode: |
9781800172357 |
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