81 Austerities
緊縮政策の空気を背景に、短く鋭い詩が社会の圧力や自己意識の揺れを切り取る。軽やかな機知と不穏さが同居し、形式そのものが削ぎ落としの感覚を担う。
作品情報
削ぎ落とされた言葉が、時代の息苦しさを逆に際立たせる。
『81 Austerities』は、2011 年の緊縮政策を背景に書かれた 81 編の短詩からなるコレクションで、自己言及的な機知と社会的な苛立ちがせめぎ合う。切り詰めた形式が、時代の空気そのものを詩の運動に変えている。
レビュー要約
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機知に富み、時代感覚を鋭く捉える点が支持される一方、皮肉の強さや実験性に好みが分かれる。短い詩の連なりが、読む側に素早い反応を要求する。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Faber & Faber
- 発売日
- 2012-08-02
- ページ数
- 128ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13 x 1 x 2 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780571289035
- ISBN-10
- 0571289037
- 価格
- 3007 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction
All three-dimensional objects can be experienced in two dimensions: it just takes some careful unpicking of the seams. Witty, comic, plaintive, touching, acerbic, droll, cavalier, caffeinated, irreverent, stringent: Austerities , the mind-altering substantial debut from Sam Riviere, seems to achieve the impossible in being all things at once. Initially conceived as a response to the 'austerity measures' implemented by the coalition government in 2011, the poems quickly began taking on a life in kind: 'cutting' themselves on levels of sentiment, structure and even subject matter. Not content to merely build a series of freethinking poems, these remarkable pieces seem eagerly and mischievously to analyze their moment of creation, then weigh their worth, then consign their excess to the recycling bin thereafter. Experience is speedy, the poems seem to say, so dizzyingly fast that the poetry will inevitably be running to catch up - often arriving at a scene the moment after the moment has gone. The effect is as funny and it is startling, beguiling as it is surprising, and makes Austerities a vivid reminder that deprivation, as Leonard Cohen put it, can be the mother of poetry.
Sam Riviere is the author of the poetry books 81 Austerities (2012), Kim Kardashian's Marriage (2015), and After Fame (2020), as well as numerous limited-edition titles. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2009, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2012. Born in Norwich, he currently lives in London, where he runs the micropublisher If a Leaf Falls Press. His first novel, Dead Souls , is published by W&N in the UK and Catapult in the US. His latest poetry collection Conflicted Copy was published in 2024.
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This is sharp!
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I've read hundreds of poetry collections and this is in the top five for me. Funny, smart, unpretentious.
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Exciting. Of the minute. Narky and subversive. Sam Reviere takes a trawl through various internet porn sights, chat rooms, drunken breakfasts and creepy, sadomasochistic theme parks and comes out with poetry. Poetry that is often, but not always, beautiful. The originality of his approach leads to the interesting take on modernity since Baudelaire. Sam Reviere will become a great poet if he keeps his feet glued to the pavement and his dirty fingers away from Kim Kardashien's curves.
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A really interesting and thought provoking read. A great collection of contemporary poems by a promising young poet. Well done Mr Riviere.
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I would not recommend it. I just don't like his stuff. I've read it twice.
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