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Late Gifts

Late Gifts

Late Gifts

by Richard Price
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/01/2024

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Late Gifts is a joyful and anxious book. The eponymous late gift, this book's occasion, is a son, born to a middle-aged father. How does this change his sense of present and future, of time itself? The poet focuses on this demanding and joyful relationship in terms that are funny and re-energising, his world renewed. The child's future makes more urgent the environmental and political themes which have long been a concern for the poet. Here Price has developed new forms for his subject matter, including striking longer pieces which survey contemporary worlds with arresting imagery and a hypnotic energy, the twin gatherings of prose poems 'Shore Gifts' and 'Shore Thefts', and quieter, meditative poems of elegy and awe-struck praise. As Maureen N. McLane has written, 'He is one of our most attentive, delicate, ferocious transmitters, singers, makers.'
ISBN:
9781800173491
9781800173491
Category:
Poetry by individual poets
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-01-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Carcanet Press, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
215.9x133.35x10.16mm
Weight:
0.15kg
Richard Price

Richard Price has published over a dozen books of poetry since his debut in 1993, including Lucky Day (2005), which was a Guardian Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. Since then, every Carcanet collection he has published has been shortlisted for a major prize.

In 2012 his poem Hedge Sparrows was chosen to represent Team GB in the Olympics project The Written World. A year later, Small World, won the Creative Scotland Award in his home country. It was followed by another Guardian Book of the Year, Moon for Sale (2017). His poems have been widely anthologised and he has been translated into French, Finnish, German, Hungarian and Portuguese. He is a short story writer and novelist, and the editor of the little magazine Painted, spoken.

He is the lyricist for the musical project The Loss Adjustors. He is Head of Contemporary British Collections at the British Library, in London, which includes the Sound Archive, Publications, and Contemporary Archives and Manuscripts.

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