Books Books
Category: Ebooks, Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 100
ISBN: 9781854115485
Publication date: November 14, 2011
Price: £8.99
Category: Ebooks, Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 100
ISBN: 9781854116161
Publication date: November 14, 2011
Price: £7.19
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Graham Mort specialises in revealing all that is “underfoot and unsaid” (“Dowser”) in Cusp (Seren, £8.99). It is a far-ranging collection – mentally and physically. “Electricity” is an epic hymn to the life-force but the highlight is “Manchester”: “love, its dirt of ingrained truth/that all human beauty is impure”. – Daily Telegraph
“…master of form and functionality…” – Poetry Review
“Graham Mort is a deeply engaged poet.” Edinburgh Review
Cusp this new collection from Graham Mort, features many of the qualities readers have come to admire; keen observation, a feeling for the natural world that echoes and enhances the human interactions in his poems, the sense of the individual as part of a larger society of which we are implicitly responsible. New here is a different sort of line, which alternates short and longer lines in a step-like formation, a terracing which propels the narratives along. Also included is the remarkable, ambitious long poem, ‘Electricity’, fizzing with riffs on its theme. Morts formal rigour, instinctive compassion, and warm humanity shine through in this new book, the first since his acclaimed: Visibility: New and Selected Poems.
Graham Mort
Graham Mort has had a lengthy career as a freelance writer and artist in education, specialising in innovative combined arts projects. He has taught writing courses for the Arvon Foundation and Taliesin Trust and was director of studies for the Open College of the Arts, extending distance learning though new technology. He is currently professor of Creative Writing and Transcultural Literature, at Lancaster University where he directs the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research. He has worked extensively on literature development projects in Africa for the British Council and for the University of Soran in Kurdistan. Amongst his many awards are the Edge Hill University Short Story Prize 2011, the Bridport Prize for the short story collection Touch (Seren 2010), Cheltenham Poetry Competition first prize (twice), a major Eric Gregory Award, two Duncan Lawrie prizes in the Arvon Foundation International Poetry competition and a Poetry Book Society recommendation. He released a book of poems, Cusp, published by Seren in 2011. His latest short story collection, Terroir (Seren), was published in 2015. His latest poetry collection, Black Shiver Moss, was published in June 2017.
