A DVA N C E I N F O R M AT I O N
CARCANET POETRY
The Acts of Oblivion Paul Batchelor ISBN 9781800171992
‘the most accomplished poet of his generation’
FORMAT Paperback
ANDRE W MCNEILLIE
RRP £11.99 PUBLICATION DATE 16th December 2021 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 24th February 2022 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 144pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets
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Long-anticipated second collection from the award-winning poet, Guardian & TLS critic, and director of the Creative Writing MA at Durham University
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Title refers to seventeenth-century laws that required not only the pardon of revolutionary deeds, but also made discussing them illegal
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Batchelor’s poems rebel against such injunctions, against forgetting
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Poems exploring ‘lost worlds’, starting with the British mining communities whose transformation they survive and remember with bitter, illuminating force
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The focus on memory and restricting of speech implicitly addresses the controversies which characterise our present moment
ABOUT THE AUTHOR English poet and critic Paul Batchelor’s first collection of poems, The Sinking Road, was published by Bloodaxe in 2008. He has won the Times Stephen Spender Prize for Translation and the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Prize, and he writes criticism for the Guardian and the TLS.
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