Books Books
Category: Fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Non Fiction
Number of pages: 104
ISBN: 9780907476900
Publication date: February 23, 1995
Price: £8.99
Duncan Bush’s work brings to life, at times painfully, the work of the Russian poet Victor Bal, who ’disappeared’ under Stalinism. This surprising and original new book recalls the period by an intermingling of history and fiction which imaginative writers have always understood but that historians have rarely admitted.
The Genre of Silence is illustrated by the artist John Selway from original etchings.
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.
