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In this assured first collection Jane
Weir interrogates the hazards,
freedoms, sorrows and fears that
shape the geography of our inevitable
revolutions. The host of characters
staged here - men, women and
children, their many faces in the
crowd, confront the rhetorics of
convention and the moribund
tyrannies of establishment; discovering
the agonies and the ecstasies
threatened, promised and occasionally
given by change and renewal. The
dialogues and negotiations in these
poems reveal with an intense poetic
insight both the power and the
powerlessness of the individual with a
deftly struck contemporary resonance.
There isn't always a happy ending
here, but there are dollops of freedom,
playful asides, sensual accords, glitz
and glamour on the way, sustained by
a visceral honesty. With an extensive
itinerary, from Belfast to Sardinia and
beyond and a time canvas that
conflates centuries The Way I Dressed
During The Revolution is quite simply
an astonishing breathtaking debut.
ISBN 0-9550023-2-X
Weir interrogates the hazards,
freedoms, sorrows and fears that
shape the geography of our inevitable
revolutions. The host of characters
staged here - men, women and
children, their many faces in the
crowd, confront the rhetorics of
convention and the moribund
tyrannies of establishment; discovering
the agonies and the ecstasies
threatened, promised and occasionally
given by change and renewal. The
dialogues and negotiations in these
poems reveal with an intense poetic
insight both the power and the
powerlessness of the individual with a
deftly struck contemporary resonance.
There isn't always a happy ending
here, but there are dollops of freedom,
playful asides, sensual accords, glitz
and glamour on the way, sustained by
a visceral honesty. With an extensive
itinerary, from Belfast to Sardinia and
beyond and a time canvas that
conflates centuries The Way I Dressed
During The Revolution is quite simply
an astonishing breathtaking debut.
ISBN 0-9550023-2-X
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