Name: Docklands: A Ghost Story (en Inglés)
SKU: 51463186
Price: 28.97 USD
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Author: John Doe
ISBN: 9781781724934

portada Docklands: A Ghost Story (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Poetry Wales Press

Autor

John Doe

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781781724934

Categorías

Irlanda
Reino unido
Poesía

Docklands: A Ghost Story (en Inglés)

John Doe (Autor) · Poetry Wales Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Docklands: A Ghost Story (en Inglés)"

Victorian Cardiff –the world’s busiest port, booming on the back of the coal mined in the Welsh valleys – is vividly imagined through the eyes of the speaker in Damian Walford Davies’s new poetry collection, Docklands: A Ghost Story. It is 1890, and three dark terraces down the docks are to be levelled to make way for a new square. The commission is given to a local architect, a man supremely sure of himself. Yielding to docklands’ temptations, he becomes ever more estranged from a wife tormented by the death of their child. As the square rises from the ruins of the terraces, the louche architect encounters ‘the girl’. A disquieting fin-de-siècle ghost story in verse, Docklands explores grey worlds at the edges of the eye, conjuring late-Victorian Cardiff’s hustling, booming, sullied docks –and the horrors they conceal. A study of the violences perpetrated against wives and daughters, and of patterns of grief and longing, this disturbing sequence summons lost children and dark desires. Seen through the architect’s eyes, the well-to-do streets of an expanding Cardiff and the shady spaces of the docks become the stage for a haunting play of presences that threaten to unravel his uneasy bourgeois world. The architect’s broken wife, Eleanor, is a central and unsettling presence. Among the architect’s acquaintances –conjured as characters in their own right –is the Irish cabbie, O’Driscoll, who regularly ferries him to dark assignations and who confirms rumours of a ghostly girl; the ‘ladybirds’ or street walkers with whom the architect consorts; and Cardiff’s trade magnates. Also making an appearance in the architect’s social circle are the Dahls –the parents of the famous Cardiff-born children’s author.