Binding: Paperback
Description: Ian Duhig's The Speed of Dark is structured around his astonishing reworking of the text of Le Roman de Fauvel a medieval text that railed against the corruption of the 12th - century French court and church. In Duhig's hands however the tale of the power - mad horse - king Fauvel gains a terrifying and almost prophetic contemporary relevance and is identified with more recent crusades crazed ambitions and insatiable greeds. Elsewhere Duhig's many admirers will be delighted by his new ballads and elegies his erudite high jinks and his low gags - with which he builds on the new imaginative territory he staked out in The Lammas Hireling to such universal acclaim. The Speed of Dark again shows Duhig as one the most capacious and brilliant minds in contemporary poetry. The most original poet of his generation Carol Ann Duffy Guardian His poetry is learned rude elegant sly and funny mixing gilded images belly - laughs and esoteric lore about language (including Irish) art history politics and children's word - games Ruth Padel Independent on Sunday Duhig telescopes topical allusions scholarly references and coarse humour into tightly - shaped surreal poems which burst open with explosive moral force Alan Brownjohn Sunday Times
Title: The Speed Of Dark
Author(s): Duhig Ian
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9780330446556
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 3/16/2007
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets