Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 72
ISBN: 9781854111050
Publication date: March 1, 1994
Price: £5.95
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In this ambitious book of poems, Duncan Bush uses a glittering variety of voices and poetic personae. His characters include a South African ex-mercenary, a Welsh hill farmer’s widow, a Cardiff garage mechanic, tourists, and, most memorably in his long poem sequence for two voices, ‘Are There Still Wolves In Pennsylvania’, a tragically disturbed American Vietnam War veteran and his wife.
Not only do these poems show a novelist’s flair for creating worlds rich in detail, they present us with characters who are wrestling, to varying degrees of success, with the compelling moral dilemmas of our day. The author’s darkly ironic precision in such poems as , ‘A.I.D.S. (The Movie)’, ‘Living in Real Times’ (a response to Bosnia), and ‘After Chernobyl’ keep us riveted throughout the collection.
Duncan Bush
Duncan Bush (1946-2017) was a poet, novelist, dramatist, translator and documentary writer. He was born and brought up in Cardiff, Wales and was educated at Warwick, Duke and Oxford Universities. His poetry collections Aquarium and Salt were both awarded the Welsh Arts Council Prize for Poetry in the 1980s and have been republished by Seren in a single volume called The Hook. His collection Masks was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the 1995 Arts Council of Wales ‘Book of the Year’ award. He is the author of several novels, including The Genre of Silence, Glass Shot, All the Rage and The Last Coming. Duncan Bush’s last poetry collection, The Flying Trapeze, was published in 2012.
