Name: The Empty Grandstand
SKU: 64398207
Price: 21.58 EUR
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Author: Lloyd Jones
ISBN: 9780645984019

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lloyd Jones

Publisher

Lightning Source Inc

Language

English

Pages

118

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780645984019

The Empty Grandstand

Lloyd Jones (Author) · Lightning Source Inc · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Empty Grandstand"

The wild secrets of boyhood is where Lloyd Jones sets off in his first book of poetry; intoxicated with images, and invoking dream spaces where language is forever in play.Lloyd Jones was seven years old the first time he climbed high into a grandstand to watch rugby with his father. The experience was baptismal. From his new elevated perspective Jones believed he could see everything that mattered - a field of play that rolled out, green with promise, from suburban New Zealand to the wider world.The grandstand is a guiding metaphor for these questing narrative poems that reach back into childhood and forward into the life of a writer constantly experimenting with form and voice.Jones writes of the wild secrets of boyhood - riding dogs, falling from trees, destroying the class ukuleles, learning to sail in small boats. He is alert to the airless small-town grievances that must inevitably be escaped.As an aspiring young writer Jones travelled widely, testing his identity against difference - places, people, politics and importantly, language.The more recent poems are a re-assembling of coordinates and a return to the local view. The grandstand has long been decommissioned - it's a housing estate now, but the poems are full of air and greenery. Dream spaces where language is forever in play.

Lloyd Jones

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Lloyd Jones nació en Nueva Zelanda en 1955 y vive en Wellington. Es autor de novelas, relatos y ensayos. Con Mister Pip (Salamandra, 2008) ganó el Premio de Escritores de la Commonwealth en 2007 y fue nominado para el Man Booker Prize.

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