| Title:
|
WITHOUT AN ALIBI
|
| By: |
Philip Neilsen |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
|
£9.99 |
|
We believe that this item is permanently unavailable, and so we cannot source
it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
1844715981 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781844715985 |
| Publisher: |
SALT PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
15 April, 2009 |
| Pages: |
128 |
| Description: |
Contains two sections including 'Forest' that deals with environmental issues through a wide range of approaches and forms, including lyrical celebration, satirical and comic attacks upon folly, and explores both contemporary and historical subjects; and 'Metamorphosis' that deals with relationships, politics and myths. |
| Synopsis: |
This book is divided into two sections: the first is titled "Forest" and deals with environmental issues through a wide range of approaches and forms, including lyrical celebration, satirical and comic attacks upon folly, and explores both contemporary and historical subjects. The second section is titled "Metamorphosis" and deals with relationships, politics and myths. Neilsen is interested in everything - the science of botany, the subterfuges within marriage, the beauty of birds, the evolution of clock-making, bears who attack American campers, New Age exploitation of the vulnerable, workplace bullying, World War Two, the German love of Roy Orbison, Blues music, academic politics, creative writing classes, mortality, and the ancient magic of the forest. He explores or reinvents historical and literary figures such as Oliver Cromwell, Shakespeare, Joseph Banks, George Bush, Robinson Crusoe, Kenneth Graham and Lewis Carrol, Christian saints who battled the pagans, Brunhild and Sigurd, Jim Corbett and his tigers, Harry Potter in restless middle age.Neilsen uses a wide range of poetic styles, from the formal to free verse, providing the reader with a variety of voices and perspectives - but all his poetry is driven by intelligence, seriousness, curiosity, inventiveness, a comic imagination, passion and wit. He finds no easy answers, celebrating both nature and science, reason and fantasy, but always wary of hypocrisy, humbug and hubris. No wonder his work has been praised by poets as varied as Les Murray and John Kinsella. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Salt Publishing |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
|
|