Sonnets for Albert: Winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2022
父親を失った息子の視点から、記憶と不在、家族の時間をたどる連作詩集。カリプソのリズムを思わせる推進力のなかで、愛情と喪失が複雑に絡み合う。
作品情報
失われた父の輪郭を、記憶と言葉で静かに立ち上げる連作詩集。
Anthony Josephによる『Sonnets for Albert』は、父の不在とその記憶を軸に、家族写真や断片的な回想を重ねながら、父親という存在を見つめ直す作品集。詩はカリブの音楽的な感触を帯び、悲しみだけでなく、受け継がれる親密さや愛情のかたちを丁寧に描き出す。
レビュー要約
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父の不在を埋めるために記憶の断片を集め、喪失のなかに愛の持続を見いだす点が高く評価されている。循環する構成と音楽的なリズムが、個人的な物語を普遍的な読書体験へ広げている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Bloomsbury Poetry
- 発売日
- 2022-06-09
- ページ数
- 112ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 12.8 x 1.2 x 19.6 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781526649942
- ISBN-10
- 1526649942
- 価格
- 2716 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction
**WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022** **LONGLISTED FOR THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE 2023** With Sonnets for Albert , Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his earlier collection Bird Head Son . In this follow-up, he weighs the impact of being the son of an absent, or mostly absent, father, Though these poems threaten to break under the weight of their emotions, they are always masterfully poised as the stylish man they depict.
Anthony Joseph is a Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Poetry. He is the author of four poetry collections and three novels. His 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction. In 2019, he was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. As a musician, he has released nine critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London.
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Wasting faith on one's father.
I love the subversive play on sonnets. Albert is brilliant and his use of language is both enthralling and candid. I was particular by how he captures every moment of his father's shadows and essence. The bravery of sifting through occurrences that could nip a man to the wilting spire of concupiscence, and yet strutting out from the archway of compassion. How he curtails the urge to be brash for the eccentricities of a man that could be running from his own shadow, with grace. Even when he knew his brother could be wasting his faith on the man; he probably was still awash and dazed with his figure and what he is suppose to represent. This book is a successful manoeuvre of the book title to deliver a stellar narrative in a poignant and ingenious style. The cadence of the work was of propulsion and the splash of waters against wet rocks. Albert is actually in a class of his own; bending words to arrest his musings. It is a sweet read. It is a candid read; quite furtive and personalized.
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Quick delivery, excellent condition
Quick delivery, excellent condition. Personal note included. Would definitely use again.
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Fine
This was fine and nothing more, really. I'm never a fan of photographs being included with a poetry collection. It's a bit Brooklyn Beckham and rarely adds much more than a good front cover or dust jacket gives you. As for the poems, I believe these were conceived (having watched Joseph's T.S. Eliot interviews) as a crown of sonnets in closed form. I actually think the choice to almost completely abandon this approach represents a lost opportunity. By choosing to write - what might we call them? - free-verse sonnets, I think the poems lose discipline rather than provide space for the writer's father's personality. It may have been more interesting to write within the constraints of closed sonnets to mirror the confining nature of memory... just a thought.
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