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The Shores of Vaikus
Philip Gross
In this edgy homage to Estonia, the country of his refugee father’s birth, T S Eliot Prizewinner Philip Gross continues to develop the subtle conversation between words and silence that is at the core of his poetry.
At this collection’s heart, the shapeshifting prose-poem monologues of Evi And The Devilweave a haunted landscape out of folktale, dark humour, the routine atrocities of history and a vividly present sense of place. The island of Vaikus (one of several words for silence in Estonian) is Estonia condensed, refracted in the dark waters of a bog pool. The voice that speaks with such compelling otherness is a channelling of a culture and a disposition often drowned out in successive occupations by the empires of the day, but always alive, and whispering. The resulting book is both a bold departure and a drawing together of the whole range of a writing life.
Détails du livre
- Éditeur
- Bloodaxe Books
- Publication year
- 2024
- Collection
- Langue
- English
- ISBN
- 9781780377186
- LAN
- b6a0b31af622