From Our Own Fire

  • Data wydania: 2024/06/24
  • Liczba stron 112
  • Format 13.5x21.5 cm
  • Wydawca: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Wysyłka: 10 dni
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This prose and poetry tour de force of storytelling has the narrative punch of a novel. It is a new departure for the poet, and for poetry itself. It takes the reader into the not-too-distant future: an artificial intelligence rules the world, and a working-class family use their wits to live off the land. William Letford blends prose and his inimitable poetry: sci-fi and hunter-gatherer are merged into a coherent story in the pages of a stonemason`s journal. `You won`t see the best of a Macallum until you put something in their fist,` says Letford, introducing the family. `Joiner, nurse, stonemason, hairdresser, plumber, gardener. Lorna even repairs vintage watches. That`s the quantum mechanics of manual labour.` We join the Macallum family as they combine their skills to reconnect with the land in a world where the empowered are hell-bent on creating a new utopia. Joe, the stonemason, records in his journal the struggles and successes of a carnival of characters. They hurl grace and humour at a future that is being shaped by a single, powerful entity. Letford`s storytelling is gritty and beautiful. `A Macallum, it seems to me now, is made to move, to think on the run. The sofas in our houses were sinkholes. The actors on a fifty-two-inch flat screen – shadows on a cave wall.`
873341
Numer EAN
9781800173439
Rok wydania
2023
Liczba stron
112
dostępność
10 dni
Format
13.5x21.5 cm
Identyfikator
136255