Suns

This first full-length volume draws from poems written over roughly ten years: prose sequences, sonnets or thereabouts, parody-homages, a metro poem, psychical collaborations, and drawn from small-print chapbooks. Combining a condensed lyricism, collage, and durational procedures, the collection works its way through days and the everyday (near accidents, a working salad, the assumptions of architecture)... The sense of fleeting glimpse, of provisionality, of actual sense-data taken in but not yet possessed, is terrific. Is it 'lyric'? Well, yes--but with a stylistic affiliation to Projective and subsequent aesthetics. And no--in the sense that Wright does not seek that laurel or that identification. The feeling given is of a spacey self-awareness. So many lines in these poems seem acts of orientation, verification of the subject's placement, vis-a-vis sounds, views, examinations--of the sky, of overhead wires, a bird, sounds of a nearby train or traffic, changes in the weather. A space both actual and mental. Ken Bolton, Southerly Tim Wright is the author of The night's live changes (2014) and Weekend's end (2013).

• | Author: Tim Wright
• | Publisher: Puncher & Wattmann
• | Publication Date: Sep 12, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 80 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 192578004X
• | ISBN-13: 9781925780048