Antler (Salt Modern Poets)

by John Clegg

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Eric Gregory Award Winner

The poems in Antler stalk their quarry over difficult ground. Prehistoric landscapes blend with genuine and imaginary anthropology; the real world becomes distorted through the dark mirrors of folktale and myth; fraudsters, liars, and con-men lurk perpetually in the shadows. This panorama is emotional, too, most vividly in the collection’s centrepiece: the sequence ‘Vaisala and Sinuhe’, charting an astronomy professor’s infatuation with one of his postgraduate students, who may or may not be a werewolf. Pared-down, playful and often very funny, Clegg’s poetry keeps faith with what is tactile and tangible (moss, leather, bone), distilling plainspoken diction, luminous imagery and a unique worldview into lines which remain in the head for a long while after the book has been closed.

  • ISBN10 1844719642
  • ISBN13 9781844719648
  • Publish Date 25 July 2013 (first published 15 May 2012)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Salt Publishing