Published by Chatto & Windus, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Author:
John Fuller
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780701184919
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EAN: 9780701184919
Published: 1 Apr 2010
From the posing of the very first question in the opening poem, 'Fragment of a Victorian Dialogue', John Fuller's enquiring and elegiac new collection arrives with a sharp sense of mortality, marked by the passing of time.
Pebble & I responds to its own philosophical enquiries by looking to a world of vivid colour and substance. From the sun-baked pebbles and plastic ice-cream spines that bedeck the 'The Jetsam Garden', to the swallows that nest under the eaves of a farmhouse in the Cilento Hills in 'Stop', the poems take us from inky, restless seascapes to the warmth of the Mediterranean as they examine the connections between man and 'our material cousins' in nature.
Seductive, yet sometimes playfully absurd, Fuller plumbs the depths with his trademark light touch and deft technical skill. The natural and social worlds can be as cruel as they are thrilling but ultimately the voices in this collection are here to celebrate 'elements of the eternal / In the ceremony of life.'
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One of the most enjoyable things about these latest offerings from John Fuller is the subtlety and variety of their descriptive detail... packed with his usual technical brio and range of tone, but what impresses more than anything is the precise and playful imagery
- Guardian
One of our most productive and ingenious poets... bravely jaunty throughout
- Daily Mail
John Fuller is an acclaimed poet and novelist. He has written seventeen collections of poetry, most recently Song & Dance, which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His 2004 collection, Ghosts, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for Poetry; The Space of Joy, published in 2006, was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. He is Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
