In the Quaker Hotel
- 110 stránok
- 4 hodiny čítania
This new collection from Helen Tookey is a book of questionings, exploring the present moment as a threshold between remembered past and uncertain future.
Helen Tookey sa zameriava na zložité vzťahy medzi jazykom, telom a spoločnosťou, často skúma témy identity a pamäti. Jej písanie sa vyznačuje prepracovanou metaforikou a starostlivo skonštruovanými obrazmi, ktoré čitateľov vtiahnu do vnútra prežívaných skúseností. Autorkin prístup k poézii je hlboko reflexívny, kladie dôraz na skúmanie skrytých významov a na to, ako sa naše vnútorné svety prejavujú navonok. Jej diela nabádajú k zamysleniu sa nad zložitosťou ľudskej existencie a nad možnosťami jazyka ich vyjadriť.


This new collection from Helen Tookey is a book of questionings, exploring the present moment as a threshold between remembered past and uncertain future.
According to the seventeenth-century herbarium The Garden of Eden, a ‘missel-child’ is a mysterious being found beneath a mistletoe-covered tree – a changeling, perhaps, ‘whereof many strange things are conceived’. Helen Tookey’s first full collection of poems starts from the missel-child to explore archaeologies of identity, place and language. She is a formally inventive writer, using collage and syllabics, exploring elegy and myth. The poems in this book create a space in which language enables something to be said and also to be shown.