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S'està carregant… A Portable Paradise (2019 original; edició 2020)de Roger Robinson (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. 39/2021. This is a deservedly award winning poetry collection. The opening section memorialises the disastrous Grenfell Tower fire in London from which 72 people died directly (and more have died and will die indirectly), deaths that should have been prevented by fire safety regulations. I'm not especially sentimental but the first poem already had me crying, as the author side-stepped trite or mawkish expression through carefully chosen imagery that is familiar enough to be comforting but also makes space for anger and grief. Roger Robinson has found not only his own voice but also voices for those silenced by death or deep mourning. The subsequent sections include poems about slavery, migration, Black Britishness or Black Britons if you prefer, and art. I laughed aloud at Slavery Limerick as I'm sure the author intended. From Blame Meantime its tenants are left to grieve in sterile hotels, with nothing to bury but ash, and survivors walk like zombies trying not to look up at the charred gravestone. From The Ever Changing Dot (for Stuart Hall) Look now: a picture of a grey-bearded man, hunched, typing dense theory in empty, wood-panelled buildings, someone intervening on his people's behalf, creating a space and saying "Welcome." Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Roger Robinson's range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; the ubiquitous presence of racism; observations on the threatening edge of violence below the surface energies of Black British territories in London; emblematic poems on the beauty and often bizarre strangeness of the world of animals; quizzical responses to the strange, the heartening, and the appalling in incidents encountered in daily life; and reflections on the purposes and costs of making art. Not least, in the sequence of poems that reflect on the meanings of the Grenfell Tower fire, Roger Robinson finds ways to move beyond a just indignation to uncover the undertones of experience that bring us nearer to the human reality of that event. The collection's title points to the underlying philosophy expressed in these poems: that earthly joy is, or ought to be, just within, but is often just beyond our reach, denied by racism, misogyny, physical cruelty, and those with the class power to deny others their share of worldly goods and pleasures. A Portable Paradise is not the emptiness of material accumulation, but joy in an openness to people, places, the sensual pleasures of food, and the rewards to be had from the arts of word, sound, and visual enticement--in short an "insatiable hunger" for life. The poems express a fierce anger against injustice, but also convey the irrepressible sense that Roger Robinson cannot help but love people for their humour, oddity, and generosity of spirit.These finely crafted poems reveal Roger Robinson's capacity to tell involving stories and capture the essence of a character in a few words, to move the emotions with the force of verbal expression, and to engage our thoughts. A Portable Paradise is a feast to be carried by lovers of poetry wherever they go. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Robinson interweaves his own history and experiences into pieces about blackness, Britishness, Windrush, police brutality, nurses and racism.
Particularly outstanding for me are the sequence of poems on the tragic fire at Grenfell towers which opens the collection, and later poems relating to the premature birth of his son and the health difficulties around this.
Robinson’s writing is easily accessible and he puts into words his thoughts, feelings and experiences in a way that is deeply affecting.
I will be reading more. ( )