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The Lantern Cage
The Lantern Cage

The Lantern Cage

POETRY

96 Pages, 5.25 x 8.5

Formats: Trade Paper, Mobipocket, EPUB, PDF

Trade Paper, $16.99 (US $16.99) (CA $19.99)

Publication Date: August 2014

ISBN 9781906188139

Rights: US, CA, NZ, CAM, SAM, CAR, PH, KR & FM

Carcanet Press, Ltd. (Aug 2014)
Oxford Poets

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Overview

The poems that Kelly Grovier's third collection, The Lantern Cage, brings together are prompted by scenes that occur in life's everyday spaces—city streets and secondhand shops, museum galleries and trains. The title conjures contrasting images of illumination and shadow, warmth and confinement, the burning soul and the material body. These are poems that seek to shine a warm light on the mysteries that underlie our existence. This is a world of "undeciphered sands," "lost cathedrals," "buried books," and "bone machines"—a land where substance and shadow blur. It is a collection that is by turns lyrical and philosophical, romantic and playful.

Reviews

"A poet of real humility, who listens to his words and guides them into place."  —Times Literary Supplement

"Grovier's poetry at its best is formidable: the marriage of music and mind."  —Alison Brackenbury, Poetry Wales

"Grovier's poems are often amusing and childlike. . . . The narrators may fret, but Grovier's craft stills poem and reader inside a 'slip-knot of stars.'"  —New Welsh Review

"William Blake for the 21st century."  —Planet Magazine

Author Biography

Kelly Grovier is the founder of the scholarly journal European Romantic Review and a regular contributor to the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement. He is a lecturer in English and creative writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the author of the poetry collections A Lens in the Palm and The Sleepwalker at Sea.