Where Now Begins

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Kerry Hardie’s new poems are the work of time and the cycles of growth, they are songs about saints and scholars, the natural world, exaltation and suffering and ordinary joy, the quiet accumulation of the slowly learned lessons of a lived life. There are narratives of the wondrous bewilderments of life as well as homages to the dead and the dying.

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These poems bear witness to the cycles of growth and decay that make up our lives. They are the work of a poet writing with an awareness of the seasonal circle closing, for the year and for herself. They are at once fearful, fragile and fearless in announcing ‘For now, we have October?/ October, lined with gold.’ They are also homages to the dead and the dying, and a reaching beyond the veil of the ‘now’ to a place where there is ‘nothing but nothing’. At times they are deeply personal, while still existing within the mythic and the impersonal, as when the recall of a room reflects the ‘casual, artless grouping of all longing’.

Additional information

Weight 73 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.8 × 0.6 cm
Author

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

71

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K