The Lammas Hireling
The Lammas Hireling is a poetry collection that moves through folklore, rural life, and haunting atmosphere. Its restrained voice lets image and repetition build emotional pressure.
Work Information
A compact poetry collection shaped by folklore and rural life.
The Lammas Hireling returns repeatedly to folklore, rural life, and haunting atmosphere, building a collection from exact images and low-key tension. The result is controlled on the surface but lingering in its aftereffects.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Picador
- Published
- 2003-05-02
- Pages
- 80 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13 x 0.7 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780330492386
- ISBN-10
- 0330492381
- Price
- 1073 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction
Ian Duhig has long inspired a fervent and devoted following. With the "Lammas Hireling" - the title poem having already won both the National Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize for Best Poem - Duhig has produced his most accessible and exciting volume to date, and looks set to reach a whole new audience. A poet of lightning wit and great erudition, Duhig is also a master balladeer and storyteller who shows that poetry is still the most powerful way in which our social history - our lives, loves and work - can be celebrated and commemorated. "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").
Ian Duhig worked with homeless people for fifteen years before becoming a writer and he is still actively involved with minority and marginalised groups on artistic projects. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Cholmondeley Award recipient, Duhig has won the Forward Best Poem Prize once, the National Poetry Competition twice and been shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize four times. He lives in Leeds with his wife Jane.