Como cliente Amazon Prime obtén 3 meses de Audible gratis
New Cemetery
Poems
No se ha podido añadir a la cesta
Solo puedes tener 50 títulos en tu cesta para poder pagar.
Vuelve a intentarlo más tarde
Vuelve a intentarlo más tarde
Error al eliminar la lista de deseos.
Vuelve a intentarlo más tarde
Se ha producido un error al añadirlo a la biblioteca
Inténtalo de nuevo
Se ha producido un error al seguir el podcast
Inténtalo de nuevo
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
Suscríbete a la prueba gratuita para poder disfrutar de este libro a un precio exclusivo para suscriptores
Después de los 30 días, 9,99 €/mes. Cancela tu siguiente plan mensual cuando quieras.
Disfruta de más de 90.000 títulos de forma ilimitada.
Escucha cuando y donde quieras, incluso sin conexión
Sin compromiso. Cancela tu siguiente plan mensual cuando quieras.
New Cemetery
Narrado por:
Simon Armitage
Compra ahora por 5,16 €
-
Narrado por:
-
Simon Armitage
-
De:
-
Simon Armitage
A few years ago, in the poet’s home county of West Yorkshire, the Local Authority began converting a series of cow fields near his home into a new cemetery. As the graveyard takes shape, its presence on the brow of the hill casts a lengthening shadow over the imagination and enlivens the poet’s landscape, both inner and outer. These poems, in regular, cascading tercets, sparked into being as he daily walked the site, with moorlands rising beyond it and the wind turbines of Brontë country to the north. Eventually the muddy construction scene gives way to fresh headstones and mown lawns, and, during the COVID-19 lockdown, the spectacle of gravediggers in hazmat suits. The poet retreats to write in his garden shed, charting his losses, conversing fruitfully with the dead, and engaging the world in the perilous present.
The sharply observed lyrics in New Cemetery—each fancifully named for a species of moth, a creature whose numbers the poet sees dwindling across a lifetime of night walks—remind us to turn a cool eye on the doings of man, and yet to embrace all we love while we still can, as “Time, what else,” stands “propped in a corner / like a cricket bat.”
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
Reseñas de la crítica
“An exceptionally skilled poet . . . This haunting volume demonstrates the magnetic pull of a mind that has kept us, across dozens of books published since 1989, mesmerized like moths to the flame.” —Jade Cuttle, Observer
“[Armitage’s] mordantly humorous feeling for life—and death—is undiminished.” —Jeremy Noel-Tod, Prospect
“[Poems of] wit and nimbleness . . . to read them is to hear the poet laureate in dialogue with the landscape and with forebears such as Ted Hughes.” —Suzi Feay, Financial Times
“With his signature Yorkshire vernacular, [Armitage] brings precise locality and light-heartedness to death and grief . . . the poems of New Cemetery tap into deeply personal material while drawing on the laureate’s public persona.” —Kit Fan, The Guardian
“[Armitage’s] mordantly humorous feeling for life—and death—is undiminished.” —Jeremy Noel-Tod, Prospect
“[Poems of] wit and nimbleness . . . to read them is to hear the poet laureate in dialogue with the landscape and with forebears such as Ted Hughes.” —Suzi Feay, Financial Times
“With his signature Yorkshire vernacular, [Armitage] brings precise locality and light-heartedness to death and grief . . . the poems of New Cemetery tap into deeply personal material while drawing on the laureate’s public persona.” —Kit Fan, The Guardian
No hay reseñas aún
