What is Near

What is Near
Kay Syrad
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6 Sep 2021 UK
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9781788641135
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[P]oems like delicate essays, in the sense of attempts-circling, being-with, tentative and tender [. . . ] poems like seed heads, fragility and delicacy, balanced, a symmetry [. . . ] seeding more thinking [. . . a tender] engagement with moss, air, horizon, the political, the scientific, the human, the non-human and the spaces-between where these things meet. The space on the page, within the poems, and between the poet writing and the world observed, is so delicately balanced. - Dr. Kim Laskyslow buildinside/outsidewhat is left unsaidwhat is beneathwhat is noticedwhat is undeclaredwhat evolves, enmeshes, becomes, deniesvisual-like camouflagelike a movement-eyes dance on page, not sure where to gofeeling accumulate through pattern of words - many unsaid, but feltWhat is near talks about what is far-deep time-what is within-unsaid earth suffering earth joy, despite it all- Chris Drury[an exploration of] the political, the specifics of natural things (eg. birds, moss, trees, landscape), boundaries and spaces; and the sense of place, all with sensuality and infinite sensitivity, including the self and its relationship to nature. We were especially aware of how [the poems] handle the very contemporary sense of language with all its problems of reference [exploring] the interconnectedness of all things through linguistic and visual means. - Professor Peter Abbs & Dr. Lisa Dart
Kay Syrad' s publications include a collection of poetry, Double Edge (Pighog, 2012); two novels, The Milliner and the Phrenologist (2009, reprinted 2012), Send (2015, both published by Cinnamon), Exchange, an art-text collaboration with environmental artist, Chris Drury (Little Toller, 2015), based on a rural residency and exhibition for the climate change cultural organisation, Cape Farewell, and the poetry collection, Inland (Cinnamon Press). Kay, who lives in East Sussex, often collaborates with artists: she has worked with the international art collective Sensory Sites and, between 2013-2016, was the commissioned writer on Last Station, a multi-media arts project exploring the history of the British lightships that used to be stationed around Britain' s coasts; here she wrote the libretto for a choral piece featuring an original score by the jazz and world-musician, Trevor Watts, and her artist' s book for the project, 1000 tasks: work of the lightship men, was bought by the National Maritime Museum for their permanent collection. With the performer Clare Whistler she has contributed work to Art: Language: Location (Cambridge, 2013) and Telling Stories II at Sevenoaks Library Art Gallery (2014). Kay also writes reviews and articles for various poetry journals.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781788641135
Published: 6 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cinnamon Press
Publisher: Cinnamon Press
Format: Paperback
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