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Ink Stone (Faber poetry) (Paperback)

by Jamie McKendrick (Author)
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  • Paperback: 53 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (20 Jan 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571215327
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571215324
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.4 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 543,853 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Acclaim for his previous collection, The Marble Fly (1997): 'Consistently excellent... where McKendrick scores is in his expert salvaging of beauty from squalor, wit from adversity, delicacy from grossness.' Michael Hofmann


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The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. as one expert writes, "the better the stone, the smaller and more consistent the particles will be and the denser the ink". These poems by Jamie McKendrick have a remarkable density of ink. They explore the grain, or "tooth" of the natural world with unusual and discomforting detail at the same time as they chart the medium they work in - not only what the eye sees, but the eye itself: its structure and structurings. These poems open onto conflicting perspectives of home and abroad, the domestic and the wild, the natural and the uncanny, elegy and celebration.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bee's knees, 3 Jul 2003
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McKendrick is the least didactic of poets, and never tells you "what to think or not to think" as the weird review above complains. Ink Stone is an advance on his excellent last collection, The Marble Fly, winner of the Forward Prize, and mostly preserved in his selected, Sky Nails. The free-ish translations here (from Dante, Montale, Rilke and Lorca) are outstanding poems in their own right and echo the concerns and the language of the other poems in the book. These poems have the unsettling humour of his previous work but seem more at ease with strong emotion, and more direct and confident in their manner. Most powerful, in my view, are the several elegies to a close friend, but there are other poems such as 'Apotheosis' (one of several strange 'bee' poems), 'Good Hedges' and 'A Mole of Sorts' which are very original and show McKendrick as one of the foremost poets writing in England.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating Intellectual journey, 20 Nov 2003
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McKendrick's poems are always worth reading and that is true of this collection, but I don't think they quite come up to the standard of his previous cutting-edge work in, for instance, "Sky Nails" or "The Marble Fly". In some, I wasn't sure what was meant, although the sparse beauty of the languages is electrifying. The best poems are still the more personal ones, and I shall look forward, as ever, to his next publication.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Bargains, 22 April 2003
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It is amazing the way McKendrick tells his readers what they should or should not think about the core of things. There is nothing there I can share. I have never heard of an odder combination of poems and translations than this one. The fact that the publisher is Faber tells us more about the state of poetry in this country than about the success of McKendrick's writing.
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