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Antler

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK Salt Publishing 2013Description: 80pISBN:
  • 9781844719648
DDC classification:
  • 821.92/CLE
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Eric Gregory Award WinnerThe poems in Antler stalk their quarry over difficult ground. Prehistoric landscapes blend with genuine and imaginary anthropology; the real world becomes distorted through the dark mirrors of folktale and myth; fraudsters, liars, and con-men lurk perpetually in the shadows. This panorama is emotional, too, most vividly in the collection's centrepiece: the sequence 'Vaisala and Sinuhe', charting an astronomy professor's infatuation with one of his postgraduate students, who may or may not be a werewolf. Pared-down, playful and often very funny, Clegg's poetry keeps faith with what is tactile and tangible (moss, leather, bone), distilling plainspoken diction, luminous imagery and a unique worldview into lines which remain in the head for a long while after the book has been closed.

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The BalanceI took a slip-road off sleep's autobahnand wound up on the disputed border.They pressed record on the tape-recorder,lit a cigarette and offered me one.I asked if this was an interrogation.Silently the patrolman underscored asentence: Travel permit not in order.He left the pages underneath unshown.I lied hard to him. Whatever he madeof my story, the barrier lifted,the soldier leaning against it steppedaside, and I woke up here afraidthat the balance had stirred or shiftedbetween the promise and the swelling debt. Excerpted from Antler by John Clegg All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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