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Orpheus

Theo Dorgan

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  • 80 sidor
  • 2018

From self-imposed distance (“I stand back from the streetlight at her school gate”) to a distance that cannot be bridged in a single lifetime, the poems in Theo Dorgan’s extraordinary new collection tell the story of Orpheus, the musician-poet, from artistic awakening through to the cost of remaining faithful to his calling.

In a book presented in two halves, and composed throughout in sapphics – in English, one of the most challenging of poetic forms – Dorgan’s contemporary Orpheus is part-drifter, part-troubadour, part-lover, recognising deeper patterns in his behaviour, but always of this place and time. In the book’s second half, the locus shifts farther out into mythic space with a parallel narrative from the Greek world that both mirrors and interweaves with the first half’s here-and-now.

Together they offer a fresh, adventurous and unexpected take on a foundational mythic figure.

  • Författare: Theo Dorgan
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781910251362
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 80
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-04-19
  • Förlag: Dedalus Press