Bøger af Matthew Sweeney

Matthew Sweeney, einer der bedeutendsten irischen Lyriker unserer Zeit, verabschiedet sich in seinem letzten Band mit starken, tiefberührende Gedichten - elegant übersetzt von Jan Wagner.Vom ersten Vers dieses Bandes an ist klar: Hier schreibt ein Dichter um sein Leben. Mit seiner Gabe, auf kleinstem Raum haarsträubende Geschichten zu erzählen und Gegenwelten zu erschaffen, hält sich Matthew Sweeney, der 2018 verstarb, poetisch den Tod vom Leib, indem er ihn bei den Hörnern packt. Feindselige Eulen, unsichtbare Feinde sind ihm dicht auf den Versen, und der Mann auf der Flucht muss immer neue Höhen seines Witzes und Einfallsreichtums erreichen, um ihnen zu entkommen. Mit diesem letzten Band verabschiedet sich Sweeney als einer der bedeutendsten Lyriker Irlands. In ihrer ungewöhnlichen Kraft und bleibenden Schönheit sind diese Gedichte ein Triumph über den Tod.

Matthew Sweeney's final collection brings together poems written during a year of debilitating illness before his death from Motor Neuron Disease in 2018. All his verve and spiky humour are here, following, as always, unnerving dream logic. But the dream is now a nightmare and the catastrophe, impending in all his earlier poems, has come to pass.

Matthew Sweeney wrote this set of 50 prose poems in response to Baudelaire's posthumously published collection of prose poems (or petits poemes en prose, as he called them). Modelling his pieces as closely as possible on Baudelaire's, Sweeney has produced an evocative autobiographical snapshot of his life in Paris.

Twelfth collection by leading Irish poet features poems ostensibly about art, artists and filmmaking which are as much portraits of the poet and the difficulties of writing poetry, plus surreal poems on birds and animals.

A story of a friendship between a young boy, an old man and his pet fox.

Eleventh collection by one of the best-known poets of Britain and Ireland: poems haunted by mortality, by other worlds and far-flung places, by visitations and violent events like the Spanish Inquisition.

Matthew Sweeney is one of our best-known poets - with a high profile in both Britain and Ireland - and moves from Cape to Bloodaxe with this collection. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

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Negotiating the borders and hinterlands of Central and Eastern Europe - with occasional coracle trips or forays to Antarctica for a round of golf - the homesick flaneur surveys the surrounding devastation with the same mixture of fascination and alarm he feels when he discovers the sweat-mark on his T-shirt makes a perfect map of Ireland.

Includes poems that connect and radiate like the spokes of a wheel: haiku, sestinas, poems beginning with a line by somebody else or sparked off by foreign travel, a version of Dante, a sea sequence set on the Suffolk coast, and - long overdue - the author's own version of the old Irish poem where his namesake is turned into a bird.

Obliquely sinister and wryly engaging, full of fright and grim hilarity, these are rootless poems - unsettled and unsettling, and very far from home. A Poetry Book Society Recommendation.