Sicilian Elephants

Sicilian Elephants
David Cooke
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h210 x 135mm - 72pg
21 Nov 2021 UK
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9781909747913
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In the title poem to Sicilian Elephants, his most wide-ranging and ambitious collection to date, David Cooke imagines the short-lived paradise achieved by those miniature elephants whose bones have been found on the island. In poems gathered here he explores notions of home and the way humans aspire to define their space and achieve a life of ease. Starting out from familiar domestic settings, he explores the rituals of DIY and gardening. However, the inevitable tensions between us and our environment and the ways that human achievement is subject to time are further explored in new and startling situations as when in a poem about heaven, the quest for a spiritual homeland is set against territorial conflict. With Sicilian Elephants, in words from the Poetry Book Society Bulletin: ' Cooke' s lyrical insight and precision make the personal universal. '
David Cooke was born in Wokingham, although his family comes from the West of Ireland. In 1977, while still an undergraduate at Nottingham University, he won a Gregory Award and since then his poems and reviews have appeared in many journals in the UK, Ireland and beyond. He has published seven collections, including A Murmuration (Two Rivers Press, 2015) and Staring at a Hoopoe (Dempsey and Windle, 2020). Founder and editor of the online poetry journal The High Window, he is married with four grown-up children and was for many years the Head of Modern Languages at a large comprehensive school in Cleethorpes. He is now happily retired and lives in Swindon.
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ISBN-13: 9781909747913
Published: 21 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Two Rivers Press
Publisher: Two Rivers Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 72

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