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From the Word Go

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Nick Drake's "From the Word Go" explores the different meanings and implications which are tightly packed into that small word - from departures on journeys in this world and beyond it, through expulsions from homes, places and relationships, to the possibilities of adventure and new discovery. At the heart of the book is a sequence describing the dying, death and afterlife of his father, an account of the struggles, fears, comedies, losses, and revelations of that final process of going out of this world. "From the Word Go" builds upon the considerable achievement of Nick Drake's award-winning first collection, "The Man in the White Suit".

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

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Nick Drake

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Nick Drake was born in 1961. He lives and works in London. His first book-length collection, The Man in the White Suit (Bloodaxe Books, 1999), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1999, and was selected for the Next Generation Poets promotion in 2004. From The Word Go was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2007. His most recent projects include a stage adaptation of Philippe Petit’s To Reach the Cloud; the screenplay for the Australian film Romulus, My Father, starring Eric Bana, which won Best Film at the Australian Film Awards; Success, a play for the National Theatre's Connections project; and a trilogy of historical novels (Nefertiti, shortlisted for CWA Best Historical Crime Novel, Tutankhamun and Egypt: The Book of Chaos which Mammoth Screen are developing for TV). He is a screenwriter, and is also working the composer Tansy Davies and director Deborah Warner on an opera for ENO. In September 2010 he was invited to join Cape Farewell's trip to the Arctic to explore climate change, and from that journey arose a commission from United Visual Artists to create poems and texts for their ground-breaking installation High Arctic at the National Maritime Museum (2011). Those poems, together with others inspired by the Arctic and its voices, are gathered in his collection The Farewell Glacier (Bloodaxe Books, 2012).

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October 6, 2019
Nick Drake brit író és költő, nem összetévesztendő névrokonával, az egykori popzenésszel (erről is van vers, és jó!) egy kétbontatú, vékony kötetben az apjára emlékező gyász-ciklus mellett egy kevéssé nyilvánvalóan összefüggő másik részbe gyűjtött prózaverseket. Van több háborús közvetítős is, itt felmerült bennem, netán nem-e az édesapja dolgozott ilyen pályán, de ez nem derül ki, a Wikipedia pedig szokatlanul szűkszavú erről a költőről, nemhogy a családjáról, de nem is voltak ezek annyira fénypontjai a könyvnek, inkább nyitva hagyott kérdések. De hát azok is simán elférnek egy verseskötetben.
A prózaversesség itt úgy néz ki, hogy viszonylag egységes szerkezetű, ám nem kötött formájú, rímtelen, és tényleges mondatokban fogalmazó versek. Nyelvi leleményekkel és életközeli képtársításokkal, könnyen fogyasztható, de nem könnyed szövegek, Volt ami kihagyható lett volna szerintem, de cserébe a 3-4 nagyon jóért simán érdemes volt végigolvasni mindet.
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