Unexhausted Time

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Unexhausted Time

Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Poetry by individual poets

Author: Emily Berry

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Language: English

Published by: Faber & Faber

Published on: 1st March 2022

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 121 Kb

ISBN: 9780571373857


Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn

in which thoughts touch us like soft rain, and all the elements are brought closer in. Feelings, messages, symbols, visions . . . Emily Berry's latest collection takes shape in the half-light between the real and the imagined, where everything is lost and yet nothing goes away. Here life's innumerable impressions, moods, seasons and déjà vus collect and disarrange themselves, while a glowing, companionable 'I' travels the mind's landscapes in hope of refuge and transformation amid these displaced moments in time.

Whether one reads Unexhausted Time as a long poem to step into or a series of titled and untitled fragments to pick up and cherish, the work is healing and inspiring, always asking how we might harness the power of naming without losing life's 'magic unknownness'. By offering these intangible encounters, Emily Berry more truly presents 'what being alive is'.

'Emily Berry has a refreshingly free, not to say incendiary, approach to poetry.' Observer

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