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Constellations
Author(s): Ian Pindar (Author)
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 31 May 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 80 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847770967
- ISBN-13: 9781847770967
Book Description
Constellations, Ian Pindar’s second collection, begins with a celebration of sunlight, but ends with the appearance of the moon, the coming of winter, snow and ‘perpetual night’. There are as many poems as there are constellations in the celestial sphere, although Pindar never abandons what he calls ‘the Plane of Matter’. In poems of haunting beauty the poet takes us from a summer love affair by the sea to the coming of war and its aftermath. The work as a whole is a profound meditation upon sex, love, parenthood, the power of dreams and memory, and the passing of time, as well as being and mortality, literature and language, and the place of poetry in the modern world.
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About the Author
Ian Pindar was born in London in 1970. He published his first work, a life of James Joyce, in 2004. Emporium, his debut poetry collection, appeared in 2011. Constellations is his second collection. His poems have appeared in The English Review, The Forward Book of Poetry 2011 and 2012, London Magazine, Magma, New Poetries III, Oxford Poetry, PN Review, Poetry Review, Stand, the Times Literary Supplement and Wave Composition. Pindar won second prize in the National Poetry Competition 2009, a supplementary prize in the Bridport Prize 2010 and was shortlisted for the 2010 Forward Prize (Best Single Poem). He lives in Oxfordshire.
