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A Night on the Lash
ISBN-13:
9781854113757
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
Friday, August 27, 2004
| £7.99 |
Like a painter, Graham Mort builds through a steady accumulation of precise and beautifully-observed details. The pictures that emerge are often surprising, even shocking in their effects. Mort is adept at imbuing a landscape with the moods and memories of its inhabitants. Touching, thoughtful and articulate, A Night on the Lash confirms his reputation as an exceptionally gifted poet.
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Review from Poetry Review
Graham Mort mines more worldly and concrete territory in his fluid, imagistic poems, with subjects ranging from a friend’s radiotherapy treatment to the recent Serbian conflict to a ride on the London Underground. A Night on the Lash is steeped in shadows, nightscapes; blood is a ‘darkening memory of heat’, while a blue dress looks like ‘a dark old bruise.’ Mort writes with quiet musicality and attractive ingenuity; he’ll introduce a few disparate elements into a poem, then interlace them until they mesh organically as a whole.
Jane Yeh, Poetry Review.
Review from Envoi 130
Somewhat daunted initially, I turned first to the names I recognised and was rewarded by a brilliant, chilling poem by Graham Mort, BLUEPRINT, which could be used in any workshop as an example of how to avoid dead, clichéd language:
Blue light is lifting footmarks from the snow,
the way fingerprints are sellotaped
from the scene of a crime ...
Envoi 130, Pauline Kirk
Review from Dreamcatcher
'Beautifully formed, with powerful exact images, these are poems of great physicality; but somehow a 'worldless unknown' sneaks in to enrich the whole.'
Paul Sutherland, Dreamcatcher