"Costa Poetry Award Winner 2018| A truly wonderful, provocative and powerful narrative poem, both beautiful and shocking."
Assurances is an award-winning narrative poem, a story, a collection of words that funnels thought, tightens feelings, allows and encourages consideration. Assurances with its mix of verse and unversed passages is a poem about the threat of nuclear war, it is shocking, yet also quite beautiful as it looks from sky to earth, from bottom to top, from small to global.
I started to read, and found myself reading out loud, feeling each word, the placement, the power. If you love poetry, you may have already come across J. O. Morgan, if you are uncertain, if you aren’t sure if poetry is for you then do step inside, let the words connect, allow yourself to explore.
I adore the ‘as with’ sections, the daily, known, ordinary, opening up and allowing understanding of the military might, the standoff, the forever nature of nuclear weapons. Assurances flows, breaks, breathes, wounds, hurts, it is 48 pages of provocative and powerful, do read it.
| Primary Genre | Poetry |
Costa Poetry Award Winner 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a period of vigilance and dread in the middle of the Cold War: the long stand-off between nuclear powers, where the only defence was the threat of mutually assured destruction. Using a mix of versed and unversed passages, Morgan places moments of calm reflection alongside the tensions inherent in guarding against such a permanent threat.
Assurances features in the following genres: Poetry, Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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Assurances was written by J. O. Morgan and published by Jonathan Cape Ltd an imprint of Vintage Publishing
Assurances has 47 pages
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