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Sift
This memoir of writer and poet Lawrence Sail's formative years in post-war Exeter paints a picture of British life in the 1940s and 50s, while exploring the richness and bafflements of a child's life.
The Quick
Lawrence Sail's new collection encompasses a striking variety of subjects. He reflects on detail in the natural world, both in micro- and macrocosm, looking for example at flowers, birds, the sea, the earth seen from space; he explores the intricacies and balances of love and family relationships; he finds new resonances in the paintings of David Bomberg, Howard Hodgkin and Paul Klee, and affinities in his translations of Mallarme, Rilke and Trakl. His imaginative scope extends into a sequence of prose poems responding powerfully to Gabriel Faure's nine Preludes for piano. Throughout the collection, close attention to the physical world is paired with the perceptions such careful considerati...
Guises
Lawrence Sail is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Forty-six years on from the publication of his first book, Guises offers the fruits of fullness. His poetry explores belief and doubt, memory and imagination, art and perception, the loss of friends and the state of our ailing planet.
Cross-currents
Essays containing poetry as their hub, while radiating to touch on a wide range of subjects, amongst them education; translation and language; the role of government as well as of the critic.
Songs of the Darkness
Songs of Darkness brings together a selection of poems for Christmas written over a period of more than thirty years. They are notable for their combination of breadth and close focus, and for the way in which the seasonal is celebrated alongside the challenges of history and the beauty of the natural world. Trees, flowers, creatures, and landscapes are memorably set in the context of the Christmas Story. The finely drawn illustrations by Erica Sail, the writer's daughter, add their own note of precision and detail.
Waking Dreams
Lawrence Sail's poems balance dream and history, delight and unease: they weigh the art of the possible against the encroachment of time. This substantial retrospective covers work written over four decades, drawing on poems from ten collections, from "Opposite Views" (1974) to the "New Poems" (2010) first collected in this volume. The new poems continue to explore Sail's characteristic themes - the border country between belief and doubt; the interplay of memory and imagination; the possibilities of art; the context of silence: and they do so with a fresh inwardness. Attentive to the often alluring details of the material and natural world, many of them reflecting the writer's love of the sea, the poems also contemplate the relationship between appearance and essence. The closing poem, 'Ghostings', offsets a keen awareness of the world as it is against the parameters of a child's perceptions and a quest for a vision of wholeness.
Out of Land
Lawrence Sail's Out of Land draws on collections including Opposite Views (1974), The Kingdom of Atlas (1980) and Devotions (1987), as well as an impressive body of new work. It has since been superseded by his later retrospective, Waking Dreams: New & Selected Poems (2010).
Building Into Air
The unifying themes of the collection are the human search for home, and the sense of striving which Sail finds in 'the bright attempt to build/the city's simulacrum into high air'. Its opening sequence is primarily a response to three unnamed English cities, but also takes in broader historical and geographical contexts. Also included are love poems and poems about family, friends, and landscapes. Building into Air adds to the achievement of his Out of Land: New & Selected Poems (1992).
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Devotions
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