In the Heart of Europe

Chris Agee

For Amnesty International Irish Section by Rushlight Editions

Irish pages: A journal of contemporary writing: Inaugural Issue: Belfast in Europe (v. 1, No. 1) (English and Irish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Edited by Chris Agee

Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing: Vol. 1 No. 2: The Justice Issue: v. 1, No. 2 (English and Irish Edition)

IRISH PAGES

Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing: Literary World v. 3, No. 1: The Literary World (English and Irish Edition)

Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing 2007: Media v. 4, No. 1: Autumn and Winter

Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing: Sea v. 4, No. 2

The Other Tongues: An Introduction to Writing in Irish, Scots Gaelic and Scots in Ulster and Scotland (English and Irish Edition)

Literary

Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing: Language and Languages v. 5, No. 1

"Next to Nothing" records the years following the death of a beloved child in 2001. Though bereft of belief in the poetic outcome compared to the apocalypse of the loss itself (one sense of the title), the fidelity of these poems to the "heartscapes" of grief constitutes, nonetheless, a work of genuine honouring -- spare, delicate, and deeply moving.  Of the collection in general, Agee has written: "In addition to individual poems and several sequences, Next to Nothing includes a section entitled 'Heartscapes', which consists of 59 'micro-poems', as I call them. Many of these are extremely short; most were written during the very bleak and soul-sick year of 2003; and the whole section (with one poem per page) will take no more than thirty minutes to read, and indeed can be read with ease by any general intelligent reader, whatever their familiarity with or experience of poetry. Swiftness of effect was, in fact, part of the intention and fidelity; the challenge here as throughout the book was to record true and deep 'heart-feeling' (as opposed to the 'feeling' of sensibility, apperception, historical moment, etc.) -- that most delicate of poetic material, owing to the swiftness of emotion itself. For once, I think I can say that these poems wrote themselves, in the sense of my being a quite passive amanuensis caught up in pain rather than any sort of instigator -- drawing on the habit of technique belonging to what had become a previous life, whilst suddenly also bereft of belief in the poetic outcome compared to the apocalypse of the loss itself -- that is to say, the textual as 'next to nothing', in several distinct senses, like Matisse's sparest line-drawings in a sea of blank space …"

Next to Nothing (Salt Modern Poets)

Salt Publishing

<p>Scar on the Stone is the first anthology of Bosnian poetry in English to have appeared since the outbreak of war and genocide following the independence of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992. It brings together fourteen of the country's most distinguished and talented poets, beginning with one of the greatest modern poets of the Balkans, Mak Dizdar (1917-1971), and ending with a selection of younger poets whose work emerged powerfully during the siege of Sarajevo. The result is a volume which evokes both the hidden peacetime of the Bosnia of Yugoslav Communism and the land ravaged by the worst war crimes on European soil since World War II. The translators themselves are leading poets including, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Ted Hughes, Ruth Padel, and Ken Smith.</p>

Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia

Poetry

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

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