Voices from Another Room
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9780620812269
ISBN13:
9780620812269
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$23.63
The carefully modulated surface of Stuart Payne's poems belies the intriguing, startling and thought-provoking depths of thought and perception. Such deliberate tensioning between the obvious and the hidden allows him to craft finely judged poems that reward rereading. Whether evoking the touch of the sun or the sound of an old tape recording, his universe is both vivid and uncertain as past, present and future are considered and reconsidered, and the distance between minds is sensed and explored. The distinctive atmosphere of Voices from Another Room is elegiac and nostalgic, the occasional emotional use of rhyme recalling Auden. The sense of a lived life is moving with loss and absence the major themes. Payne can also tell a story and paint a picture, the South African landscape occasionally opening out into a Mediterranean vision, while never losing sight of an ironic detail, as when "a cat... kneads a lap". This is an original voice in South African verse, and readers will want to keep his book within reach, "to recreate a world of missing words". -TONY VOSS
| Author: Stuart Payne |
| Publisher: Uhlanga |
| Publication Date: Apr 23, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 0620812265 |
| ISBN-13: 9780620812269 |
Voices from Another Room
$23.63
The carefully modulated surface of Stuart Payne's poems belies the intriguing, startling and thought-provoking depths of thought and perception. Such deliberate tensioning between the obvious and the hidden allows him to craft finely judged poems that reward rereading. Whether evoking the touch of the sun or the sound of an old tape recording, his universe is both vivid and uncertain as past, present and future are considered and reconsidered, and the distance between minds is sensed and explored. The distinctive atmosphere of Voices from Another Room is elegiac and nostalgic, the occasional emotional use of rhyme recalling Auden. The sense of a lived life is moving with loss and absence the major themes. Payne can also tell a story and paint a picture, the South African landscape occasionally opening out into a Mediterranean vision, while never losing sight of an ironic detail, as when "a cat... kneads a lap". This is an original voice in South African verse, and readers will want to keep his book within reach, "to recreate a world of missing words". -TONY VOSS
| Author: Stuart Payne |
| Publisher: Uhlanga |
| Publication Date: Apr 23, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 0620812265 |
| ISBN-13: 9780620812269 |
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