LEADER 03799nam 22005532 450 001 9910782254303321 005 20170815134143.0 010 $a1-84631-290-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000541143 035 $a(EBL)380738 035 $a(OCoLC)476209932 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000134220 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11157539 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000134220 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10055271 035 $a(PQKB)11338221 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC380738 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781846312908 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL380738 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10369108 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL878041 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000541143 100 $a20170307d1998|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCutting the clouds towards /$fMatt Simpson$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d1998. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 66 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aContemporary French and Francophone Cultures 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 $a0-85323-713-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 66). 327 $aTitle Page; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Prologue; To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith; On the Right Side of the Earth; Epilogue; Select Bibliography 330 $aThe poems in this fifth collection of his poetry were written before, during and after Matt Simpson's two-month period as poet-in-residence at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania. Most of the poems are responses to encounters with the work and life of the mid-nineteenth-century writer and artist, Louisa Anne Meredith, who spent the first part of her life in Birmingham and who was already established as author and artist before, at the age of twenty-seven, she married her cousin, Charles, and emigrated to Australia. The Merediths were subsequently to spend most of the rest of their lives in Tasmania. Simpson follows Mrs Meredith there, creating an imaginative relationship with her and in his poetry (in the words of John Lucas in his Foreword to this book) 'exploring in different ways his sense of engagement with a person, a place, and, more remarkably, of hers and it with him. For among the most astonishing features of this intensely creative engagement is the way Mrs Meredith herself emerges as a full and complex character, witty, resilient, keenly observant, even able to rebuke the poet for his "arrogance of hindsight". At the same time, Matt Simpson engages with the familiar theme in his previous work, now a personal quest of following his seafaring father to the other side of the world. All those who know Simpson's poems will see this as a continuation and some sort of resolution of what much of his work has been concerned with to date. He completes a sort of odyssey though his arrival in Tasmania, a journey which began many years earlier with his father's tales of Tasmania. John Lucas again: 'It takes a rare poet to risk weaving into his own work moments from and allusions to The Tempest, that most authoritative and mysterious of plays, but his poems triumphantly surmount that danger. That they should do so helps us to recognise how assured and compelling is Matt Simpson's achievement.' 410 0$aContemporary French and Francophone Cultures 606 $aTasmania$vPoetry 607 $aTasmania$vPoetry 615 0$aTasmania 676 $a821/.914 700 $aSimpson$b Matt$01484543 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782254303321 996 $aCutting the clouds towards$93703234 997 $aUNINA