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Tytuł: “Other Than They Were”: Fair Places Full of Folk
Autorzy: Thomas, Michael W.
Słowa kluczowe: England
imagination
landscape
memory
poetry
post-war
working-class
Data wydania: 2013
Data dodania: 27-lut-2014
Wydawca: The University of Bialystok
Źródło: Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, 2013/1, s. 86-93
Abstrakt: Few things are more unpredictable than the convergence of people, landscape and memory. Often, the more time that passes, the more memory has to lean upon imagination to define experiences from the ever-receding past. “The present”, notes Ian Jack, “always depends upon the past, which makes the past a necessary subject of any reporter’s enquiry” (Jack 2009: xiii). When the reporter is also a poet, however, the enquiry of which Jack speaks assumes a different character, different imperatives. The following essay considers Batmans Hill, South Staffs, 1961-1972, my themed sequence of poems, a return to the human and non-human landscapes of my childhood. One concern of the sequence is how locality defined people and people humanised locality in one region of post-war municipal England. Running alongside that, however, is an awareness of the caprice of memory and a fascination with the ways in which poetry tempers and exploits that caprice.
Nota biograficzna: Michael W. Thomas is a poet, novelist, dramatist and essayist. His work has appeared in Critical Quarterly, The London Magazine, The Antioch Review (US) and Irish University Review, among others. His latest novel, Pilgrims at the White Horizon, is published in 2013. The author’s website is: www.michaelwthomas.co.uk
E-mail: michaelw.thomas@btinternet.com
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11320/756
DOI: 10.15290/cr.2013.01.06
ISSN: 2300-6250
Typ Dokumentu: Article
Występuje w kolekcji(ach):Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, 2013, Issue 1

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