New Light for the Old Dark by Willetts, Sam
New Light for the Old Dark by Willetts, Sam

New Light for the Old Dark

An extraordinary first collection of poems from an assured new writer Deft, economical, and wonderfully original, this...
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Author: Sam Willetts
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New Light for the Old Dark by Willetts, Sam

New Light for the Old Dark

$42.93
New Light for the Old Dark by Willetts, Sam

New Light for the Old Dark

$42.93
Author: Sam Willetts
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
An extraordinary first collection of poems from an assured new writer

Deft, economical, and wonderfully original, this is work that celebrates the peaks and troughs of a lived life, the poems' vivid clarity feeling both fresh and fully earned. It is rare to find an unknown poet of such mature quality, and New Light for the Old Dark represents a brilliant dawning. In a book deeply conscious of history, one series of poems tracks his mother's escape, as a young girl, from the Nazis, in a narrative that moves from a Stuka attack on the Smolensk Road to the Krakow ghetto, the destruction of Warsaw, to Nuremberg and Nagasaki and, finally, his mother's grave. Other poems address Englishness, secular Jewishness, and the childhood pleasures of Oxfordshire--an increasingly deceptive pastoral, stalked and eventually shattered by heroin, which brings a grim new existence among dealers and users. The redemption the poet finds, through detox and rehab, love and writing, is full of regret for the years and lives wasted, but also offers a lyrical rebirth of the senses: "In a new light, a new moon/ that isn't made of scorched tinfoil/will turn your tide again."

Author: Sam Willetts
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 04/01/2010
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780224089180


Award: Costa Book Awards - Nominee

About the Author
Sam Willetts was born in 1962 and has spent most of his life in Oxford, where he read English at Wadham College, and in London. He has worked as a teacher, journalist, and travel writer.


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