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The Empty Grandstand
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ISBN10: 0645984019
ISBN13: 9780645984019
Publisher: Upswell Publishing
Published: Sep 3 2024
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780645984019
Publisher: Upswell Publishing
Published: Sep 3 2024
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
The wild secrets of boyhood is where Lloyd Jones sets off in his first book of poetry; intoxicated with images, and invoking dream spaces where language is forever in play.
The grandstand is a guiding metaphor for these questing narrative poems that reach back into childhood and forward into the life of a writer constantly experimenting with form and voice.
Jones writes of the wild secrets of boyhood - riding dogs, falling from trees, destroying the class ukuleles, learning to sail in small boats. He is alert to the airless small-town grievances that must inevitably be escaped.
As an aspiring young writer Jones travelled widely, testing his identity against difference - places, people, politics and importantly, language.
The more recent poems are a re-assembling of coordinates and a return to the local view. The grandstand has long been decommissioned - it's a housing estate now, but the poems are full of air and greenery. Dream spaces where language is forever in play.
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