- Paperback: 84 pages
- Publisher: Salt Publishing (15 Sep 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1844717704
- ISBN-13: 978-1844717705
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 0.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,857,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dooley deals with whatever comes – news, memories, encounters, dreams: nothing is out of bounds. (PHILIP GROSS Poetry Review )
Dooley seems to me among the handful of writers today trying to work towards a serious, intelligent poetry of the people – something that is neither frivolous verse nor poetry built for the seminar room (PETER SANSOM Orbis )
The measured, meditative manner sometimes quickens into a loping inclusiveness of definition, or breaks out in arresting tight-lipped urgencies (including urgent uncertainties) of perception. (CLAUDE RAWSON TLS )
Amalgamating poise and intellect with a thoughtful pacing of each poem’s release, Dooley injects his words into their precision mouldings with a characteristically delicate and perceptive pressure. (MARIO PETRUCCI PBS Bulletin )
Tim Dooley's Imagined Rooms is for the most part a collection of poems from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Thirty-five of the fifty-five poems are in Dooley's first collection, The Interrupted Dream. If this is put together with Dooley's critically successful collection of 2008, Keeping Time, the greater part of Dooley's published work is now available from Salt. Twelve of the poems in Imagined Rooms are in a form peculiar to Dooley, which consists of three eight-line stanzas where the lines vary in length, and achieve a shapely configuration to match the twists and turns of Dooley's perception. They shift rapidly between personal, historical and political concerns. Dooley's poems written in the Thatcher era seem exemplary of the defeated liberal consciousness that lived through that time and which was briefly revived at the end of the millennium, only to be defeated again. (James Sutherland Smith The Bow Wow Shop )
Tim Dooley’s Imagined Rooms shows how, in a quiet, contained register it’s possible to be both trenchantly personal and – well, trenchantly political. In a personal way. The poems were written in the 70s and 80s — you can feel it in lines like “The Trident is doing its diagonal overhead drone”, or “Optimists of agitprop rehearse in the / co-operative restaurant…”— and, sure enough, it is all feeling strangely prescient now. Or strangely plus ça change. (Katy Evans-Bush Baroque in Hackney )
Dooley seems to me among the handful of writers today trying to work towards a serious, intelligent poetry of the people – something that is neither frivolous verse nor poetry built for the seminar room (PETER SANSOM Orbis )
The measured, meditative manner sometimes quickens into a loping inclusiveness of definition, or breaks out in arresting tight-lipped urgencies (including urgent uncertainties) of perception. (CLAUDE RAWSON TLS )
Amalgamating poise and intellect with a thoughtful pacing of each poem’s release, Dooley injects his words into their precision mouldings with a characteristically delicate and perceptive pressure. (MARIO PETRUCCI PBS Bulletin )
Tim Dooley's Imagined Rooms is for the most part a collection of poems from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Thirty-five of the fifty-five poems are in Dooley's first collection, The Interrupted Dream. If this is put together with Dooley's critically successful collection of 2008, Keeping Time, the greater part of Dooley's published work is now available from Salt. Twelve of the poems in Imagined Rooms are in a form peculiar to Dooley, which consists of three eight-line stanzas where the lines vary in length, and achieve a shapely configuration to match the twists and turns of Dooley's perception. They shift rapidly between personal, historical and political concerns. Dooley's poems written in the Thatcher era seem exemplary of the defeated liberal consciousness that lived through that time and which was briefly revived at the end of the millennium, only to be defeated again. (James Sutherland Smith The Bow Wow Shop )
Tim Dooley’s Imagined Rooms shows how, in a quiet, contained register it’s possible to be both trenchantly personal and – well, trenchantly political. In a personal way. The poems were written in the 70s and 80s — you can feel it in lines like “The Trident is doing its diagonal overhead drone”, or “Optimists of agitprop rehearse in the / co-operative restaurant…”— and, sure enough, it is all feeling strangely prescient now. Or strangely plus ça change. (Katy Evans-Bush Baroque in Hackney )
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Dooley deals with whatever comes - news, memories, encounters, dreams: nothing is out of bounds. -- PHILIP GROSS Poetry Review Dooley seems to me among the handful of writers today trying to work towards a serious, intelligent poetry of the people - something that is neither frivolous verse nor poetry built for the seminar room -- PETER SANSOM Orbis The measured, meditative manner sometimes quickens into a loping inclusiveness of definition, or breaks out in arresting tight-lipped urgencies (including urgent uncertainties) of perception. -- CLAUDE RAWSON TLS Amalgamating poise and intellect with a thoughtful pacing of each poem's release, Dooley injects his words into their precision mouldings with a characteristically delicate and perceptive pressure. -- MARIO PETRUCCI PBS Bulletin Tim Dooley's "Imagined Rooms" is for the most part a collection of poems from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Thirty-five of the fifty-five poems are in Dooley's first collection, "The Interrupted Dream". If this is put together with Dooley's critically successful collection of 2008, "Keeping Time", the greater part of Dooley's published work is now available from Salt. Twelve of the poems in "Imagined Rooms" are in a form peculiar to Dooley, which consists of three eight-line stanzas where the lines vary in length, and achieve a shapely configuration to match the twists and turns of Dooley's perception. They shift rapidly between personal, historical and political concerns. Dooley's poems written in the Thatcher era seem exemplary of the defeated liberal consciousness that lived through that time and which was briefly revived at the end of the millennium, only to be defeated again. -- James Sutherland Smith The Bow Wow Shop Tim Dooley's "Imagined Rooms" shows how, in a quiet, contained register it's possible to be both trenchantly personal and - well, trenchantly political. In a personal way. The poems were written in the 70s and 80s - you can feel it in lines like "The Trident is doing its diagonal overhead drone", or "Optimists of agitprop rehearse in the / co-operative restaurant!"- and, sure enough, it is all feeling strangely prescient now. Or strangely "plus ca change". -- Katy Evans-Bush Baroque in Hackney
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