The Last Tape
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism, Poetry, British & Irish
| Author: | Alex Niven | ISBN: | 9781782795445 |
| Publisher: | John Hunt Publishing | Publication: | October 31, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Zero Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Alex Niven |
| ISBN: | 9781782795445 |
| Publisher: | John Hunt Publishing |
| Publication: | October 31, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Zero Books |
| Language: | English |
In this haunting debut collection, Alex Niven explores a poetic hinterland that is also a psychological and cultural wilderness. Adopting a style grounded in the radical minimalism of northern English modernism and romanticism, Niven writes poems constructed out of traditional forms cut up and reassembled to produce an abrupt lyric realism ideally suited to the political subject matter of his verse. These are poems of anger, mourning, and finally, extraordinary optimism, announcing the arrival of a historically lucid new bearing in twenty-first-century British poetry.
In this haunting debut collection, Alex Niven explores a poetic hinterland that is also a psychological and cultural wilderness. Adopting a style grounded in the radical minimalism of northern English modernism and romanticism, Niven writes poems constructed out of traditional forms cut up and reassembled to produce an abrupt lyric realism ideally suited to the political subject matter of his verse. These are poems of anger, mourning, and finally, extraordinary optimism, announcing the arrival of a historically lucid new bearing in twenty-first-century British poetry.
