Civil and Civic

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
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Author: Jonathan Bennett ISBN: 9781554909872
Publisher: ECW Press Publication: April 1, 2011
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Jonathan Bennett
ISBN: 9781554909872
Publisher: ECW Press
Publication: April 1, 2011
Imprint:
Language: English

“As accomplished as Jonathan Bennett is at using language hes never fussy or precious about it. With his exacting contemporary voice part colourful reporter part reluctant witness his lines gain their effect by serving experience in the most necessary way possible via clear-eyed attention and vivid diction. The result is an immediacy often lacking in other poetry. Civil and Civic s nimble narratives will crackle in your ear.” — David OMeara author of Noble Gas Penny Black The poems of Jonathan Bennetts second collection Civil and Civic probe for present meanings of civility and civic mindedness search for boundaries between private and public realms and question the sprawling and often unintended effects of transparency and obligation. Medicine the military science public relations social justice media business and the environmental movement are just some of the worlds these poems inhabit. Not without a spirit of play in Civil and Civic Bennett emerges as a disquieting curator giving the reader poetry that is relevant humane political investigative and outward looking. Yet within which he supplies voice to private moments isolated or suppressed incidents and to the happy accidents that can occur within language when irreconcilable spheres of influence meet and open up new meanings ideas hope even.

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“As accomplished as Jonathan Bennett is at using language hes never fussy or precious about it. With his exacting contemporary voice part colourful reporter part reluctant witness his lines gain their effect by serving experience in the most necessary way possible via clear-eyed attention and vivid diction. The result is an immediacy often lacking in other poetry. Civil and Civic s nimble narratives will crackle in your ear.” — David OMeara author of Noble Gas Penny Black The poems of Jonathan Bennetts second collection Civil and Civic probe for present meanings of civility and civic mindedness search for boundaries between private and public realms and question the sprawling and often unintended effects of transparency and obligation. Medicine the military science public relations social justice media business and the environmental movement are just some of the worlds these poems inhabit. Not without a spirit of play in Civil and Civic Bennett emerges as a disquieting curator giving the reader poetry that is relevant humane political investigative and outward looking. Yet within which he supplies voice to private moments isolated or suppressed incidents and to the happy accidents that can occur within language when irreconcilable spheres of influence meet and open up new meanings ideas hope even.

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