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The Stairwell (Paperback)
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The Stairwell (Paperback)
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List price R459
Loot Price R389
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You Save R70 (15%)
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Winner of the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2014
T.S. Eliot Prize In The Stairwell, his tenth collection, Michael
Longley's themes and forms reach a new intensity. The second part
of the book is a powerful sequence of elegies for his twin brother,
Peter, and the dominant mood elsewhere is elegiac. The title poem
begins: 'I have been thinking about the music for my funeral ...'
The two parts are also linked by Homer. Longley is well-known for
his Homeric versions, and the Iliad is a presiding presence - both
in poems about the Great War and in the range of imagery that gives
his twin's death a mythic dimension. Yet funeral music can be
life-affirming. Longley has built this collection on intricate
doublings, not only when he explores the tensions of twinship. The
psychologically suggestive word 'stairwell' is itself an ambiguous
compound. These poems encompass birth as well as death, childhood
and age, nature and art, the animal and human worlds, tenderness
and violence, battlefield and 'homeland'. The Stairwell is a richly
textured, immensely moving work. Michael Longley has the rare
ability to fuse emotional depth with complicated artistry: to make
them, somehow, the same thing.
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