Elegant, interesting, fluent, funny and wise, Tim Dooley's new collection Keeping Time brings together lyrics and fragmentary narratives, the remembered and the imagined, in poems whose every line seems balanced as if with a spirit level. In a special issue of Agenda on `The State of Poetry', Dooley wrote `the condition of poetry isn't soliloquy but colloquy, a conversation that's been going on before the poem starts, and is capable of being joined and continued by others.' Keeping Time reflects this plural, provisional vision. New vocabularies of social and technological change cohabit with after-images of traditional literary forms. Key public events of recent years are explored alongside recurring timeless themes. First- and third person- pieces accompany narratives whose protagonists slip slyly from one poem to another. This is a poetry of light and movement that captures the reader's attention in unexpected ways.
- ISBN10 6612094907
- ISBN13 9786612094903
- Publish Date 15 October 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 29 May 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Salt
- Format eBook
- Pages 72
- Language English