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The long title poem of John Greening's The Silence is a meditation on Jean Sibelius and the thirty years he spent grappling with an eighth symphony, which in the end he probably burned. The poem is emblematic of a broader concern with the mystery of the creative process, explored here in the work of other artists but also grappled with first-hand, in the composition of poems. The collection is haunted by other kinds of silence too, especially that most emphatic one (notably in Greening's witty f...Show more
Book details
ISBN
9781784107475
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Published year
2019
Language
Edition
1
Original title
The Silence
Format
Paperback
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