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Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 (Salt Modern Poets)

Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 (Salt Modern Poets)

by Andy Brown (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 brings together the best of Andy Brown's poems from the first ten years of his publications. Through his light-touch exploration of our sense of selves, public and private, Brown's work explores ideas of `relationship' in its widest senses -

the ecology of the natural world and our relationship to it

the intimacy and intricacies of personal relationships

the relationships between language and experience, memory, imagination and reality

Informed by philosophies of Critical Realism, Brown's poetry explores pertinent environmental and philosophic ideas, combining ontological inquiry with accessible lyric language and form, subtle humour, and a direct engagement with the `thing-ness' of the world.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 128
 Publisher: Salt Publishing
Published: 15 Sep 2006
ISBN 10: 184471280X
ISBN 13: 9781844712809
Book Overview: Significant Selected Poems from one of the UK's most important ecological poets -- in accessible and beautiful lyrics this book explores the natural world and our relationship to it. Contains poems about intimacy and the intricacies of personal relationships. Brown's light-touch is everywhere evident as he surveys our sense of selves, both public and private. Explores the relationships between language and experience, memory, imagination and reality.

Media Reviews
Andy Brown's poems pull the reader into a series of exchanges, questionings, back and forth, writer to reader, reader to writer. Vivid and tangible, there is a real wit that at times makes me laugh out loud, a true learning, and a gentle humanity to these tender-hearted poems that is genuinely moving.--Lee Harwood
Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be no barriers in poetry; that the philosophical, the lyrical and the playful can be combined in work of assured and generous vision.--John Burnside
These are poems which are, in every way, suffused with light.--Deryn Rees-Jones
Author Bio
Andy Brown is Director of the Centre for Creative Writing at Exeter University. His recent books include Hunting the Kinnayas (Stride, 2004), From a Cliff (Arc, 2002) and of Science (Worple, 2001, with David Morley). Andy Brown studied Ecology, a discipline that informs both his poetry and his criticism, which appears in The Salt Companion to the Works of Lee Harwood (Salt, 2006). He was previously a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation's creative writing courses, and has been a recording musician.