The Silence

by John Greening

The title poem of The Silence is a meditation on Sibelius and the thirty years he spent grappling with an eighth symphony that he eventually burned. The poem is emblematic of a broader concern with the mystery of the creative process, explored in the work of other artists but also grappled with first-hand, in the composition of poems. Death, that most emphatic of silences, is a recurring theme; but so too is the bright potentiality of the unknown,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784107476
• ISBN13: 9781784107475
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 5.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.4"