Maura Dooley’s poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism
and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart.
These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry
Review) admired her ‘sharp and forceful’ intelligence. Adam
Thorpe praised her ability ‘to enact and find images for complex
feelings…Her poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable
toughness…she manages to combine detailed domesticity with
lyrical beauty, most perfectly in the metaphor of memory ’
(Literary Review). Five Fifty-Five is Maura Dooley’s first new
collection since The Silvering (2016). These are quizzical poems
concerned with time and mortality which ask fundamental questions
about our lives, such as Where have you gone? and Who were you
anyway? She tries to find out through conversations with, among
others, Louisa M. Alcott, Hokusai, Jane Austen, Buzz Aldrin, Anne
Tyler and the Great Uncle and Grandfather she never knew. There are
poems, too, about the difficulties and responsibilities of
translation, both from the written word and in interpreting what is
left unspoken in different kinds of absence; empty streams, bare
trees, the loss of friends. Yet these are poems that find and try
to offer consolation: 'What have you learned exactly? / To love, to
speak up, to hold steady.'
General
Imprint: |
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Maura Dooley
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Dimensions: |
216 x 138 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Sewn
|
Pages: |
64 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78037-657-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-78037-657-X |
Barcode: |
9781780376578 |
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