A dazzlingly various collection, Local Honeyjuggles its opposites with panache - heart and intellect, melancholy and zest, derangement and perspicacity. Beginning with early stirrings of logical thought in a Palaeolithic cave, the collection ranges through times, places and viewpoints before homing close in the last poems to recent family predicaments that are personal in their particulars, universal in their resonance.
En route, four sections of sonnets and sestinas, blues and ballad rhythms transport us through themes and places: mind and love and nonsense - the moon - Greece, Italy, Morocco, Iceland, the haunted Elysian forest of memory. The book is animated by a rich cast of characters: shepherds and beekeepers, a Sufi flute-player, a reprobate fireman, a passionate devotee of ortolan buntings, an admiral who composes piano music at sea.
Restless in its craftsmanship, responsive in its moods, with gracenotes of wit and meaningful play, Local Honey delights with the music of words, insights and ideas.
| ISBN: | 9781903039908 |
| Publication date: | 30th August 2007 |
| Author: | Robert Saxton |
| Publisher: | OxfordPoets an imprint of Carcanet Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 83 pages |
| Series: | OxfordPoets |
| Genres: |
Poetry |
A dazzlingly various collection, Local Honeyjuggles its opposites with panache - heart and intellect, melancholy and zest, derangement and perspicacity. Beginning with early stirrings of logical thought in a Palaeolithic cave, the collection ranges through times, places and viewpoints before homing close in the last poems to recent family predicaments that are personal in their particulars, universal in their resonance.
Local Honey features in the following genres: Poetry
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Local Honey was written by Robert Saxton and published by OxfordPoets an imprint of Carcanet Press
Local Honey has 83 pages
Yes it is part of OxfordPoets series