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John Barnie Dunes of Cwm Rheidol (Paperback). Title: Dunes of Cwm Rheidol. Author: John Barnie. Format: Paperback. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB. Item Weight: 113g. Item Height: 216mm. Item Length: 140mm. Genre: Poetry & Drama. Further DetailsTitle: Dunes of Cwm Rheidol Condition: New Author: John Barnie Publisher: Cinnamon Press Format: Paperback EAN: 9781788641456 ISBN: 9781788641456 ISBN-10: 1788641450 Release Date: 09/20/2023 Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Genre: Poetry & Drama Item Length: 140mm Item Height: 216mm Item Weight: 113g Description: Walking the razor edge between grim reality and stoicism, John Barnie once again brings his intelligence, wit and prescient anger to bear on the world we inhabit and the world we are making. In spine-chilling imagery and with a linguistic dexterity that makes words shine, we are taken to a landscape that is exquisite and familiar, yet simultaneously overwhelmed with wreckage and grief. Staring not only into time’s abyss, but into the carnage wrought by human desire for more and more. Prophetic in the tradition of Robinson Jeffers, but with the lyric compression of William Carlos Williams, whose words provide the epigraph for this collection, Barnie imagines his quiet rural homeland occupied and brutalised in the central sequence, ‘Occupied’: ‘the safety net / so full of holes you couldn’t catch a whale in it […]/ I knew the days of iridescence were lost for ever.’ (‘Iridescence’) While in ‘M.A.D.: The Sequel’ rhymes skip along with an irony reminiscent of William Blake’s use of nursery rhyme metre to convey horror. As the world is incinerated we hear: ‘cry if you must / there was no one to gather / the heart’s dust.’ Type: Poetry Release Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
