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    Arguing with Malarchy

    By Carola Luther

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    Arguing with Malarchy is full of voices. Tender, sinister, sad or cantankerous, they compel us to attend to their realities, the glimpsed depths of their stories, the distances they have travelled. Carola Luther's poems are alert to the ways a life can be briefly snared in the turn of a phrase or in the moment when language fails. She explores silences, absences, the unspoken communication between animals and human beings, the living and the dead, and the boundaries between what is remembered, forgotten or invented. In the book's first part, a chronicle of mourning creates the 'bare threads of tunes' out of what is lost, and begins a new story. In the second part, Luther's characters live in their language; 'Keep talking,' the old man tells Malarchy. We travel through elemental landscapes of sea and sky, shadows and wide savannahs that exist beyond language and sustain when words are silenced.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarcanet Poetry
    Release dateJul 28, 2011
    ISBN9781847778871
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    Arguing with Malarchy
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    Carola Luther

    Carola Luther's first two collections, Walking the Animals (2004) and Arguing with Malarchy (2011) were published by Carcanet Press. Walking the Animals was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for First Collection. Herd, a pamphlet of poems, was published by The Wordsworth Trust where Carola was Poet in Residence in 2012. She was born in South Africa but now lives in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire.

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