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The Swailing: Volume 76
Here the long edge / of town Low / winter fog / ... My breath / my offering We are / our bodies burning Firmly rooted in fire-haunted landscapes that are at once psychological, emotional, and fiercely real, Patrick Errington's first collection traces the brittle boundaries between presence and absence, keeping and killing, cruelty and tenderness. In these poems human voices whisper through the natural world - a hand turns on a lamp to extinguish the stars; stones outline a sleeping form; a black eye is a storm cloud. Errington stokes vivid images, formal grace, and subtle humour into the flickers of life that hold fast against unforgiving terrain. Here language functions like a controlled burn, one that could at any moment preserve, perfect, or reduce to ash. Urgent, resonant to the bone, the swailing burns to the ember-edge of grief, memory, and control to find the wildness, wilderness, and wonder that remain.
Book Details
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publish Date: Mar 15th, 2023
- Pages: 120
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.32in - 4.96in - 0.47in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9780228016755
- Categories: • Canadian
About the Author
Patrick James Errington is an award-winning poet and recipient of the 2022 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award. Originally from Alberta, he now lives in Scotland, where he teaches at the University of Edinburgh.
Praise for this book
"From the beginning of the book to the end, the poet sets the reader's mind on fire with the luminous language, lyric intensity, and emotional heat of these poems. Patrick Errington's gorgeous, superbly crafted gems each shimmer under the poet's fierce gaze, and taken together achieve something grand and powerful." Jennifer Franklin, author of If Some God Shakes Your House
"The slow burn of these poems culminates in evocative and expansive lyricism." Poetry Foundation
"Like figures walking through the smoke from a burning field, Errington's poems emerge with remarkable definition, clarity, and surprise." Bronwen Wallace Prize jury citation
"Patrick Errington is a poet of loss and of the almost-but-never-quite-found. He shows us how, on the crest of emerging form and its dissolution, meaning flares intensely, piercingly." Jan Zwicky
"The swailing is a powerful, unstintingly honest exploration of memory, loss, the subtle play of presence and absence, and the risks to selfhood that longing poses, explored in poems shot through with dark humour, urgency, and exemplary precision." John Burnside, author of Black Cat Bone