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Overview“The age both of present-day poetry and of poetry-to-come is irreducibly and inevitably transcultural, multilingual, international.” Together with his Imagems 1 and 2 (2013, 2019), Richard Berengarten’s third collation of statements on poetics reaffirms poetry as imaginational. From catacombs of dreams and image(m)s coiled in reverie, through fissure of sign and syntax, in articulated rhythm, and in wordplay and word-coinage (verbing, nouning, unfinishment) – poetry, Berengarten assures us, comes into being from within to without. —Ana Radovic Firat These lyrical meditations celebrate poetry as the form of language best fitted to bringing us more deeply and vividly into reality in its many psychic, natural, social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions. Through the beauty, precision, and generosity of their language, the meditations – prose poems themselves – not only pronounce this power but evoke and induct it. —Roderick Main Here, Richard Berengarten continues to advocate a numinous poetics, expres-sed in a language filtered through trees, whose oxygen we breathe. This is a poetics conceived in darkness, growing and spreading inexorably into light. For Berengarten, poetry begins and ends, and begins again, in an inherently shared present, spanning generations, where “all that’s needed is breath. —Katie Lehman Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard BerengartenPublisher: Shearsman Books Imprint: Shearsman Books Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.051kg ISBN: 9781848619074ISBN 10: 1848619073 Pages: 32 Publication Date: 11 July 2025 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available ![]() This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationRichard Berengarten was born in London in 1943, into a family of musicians. He has lived in Italy, Greece, the USA and former Yugoslavia. His writing integrates multiple strands, including English, French, Mediterranean, Jewish, Slavic, American and Asian influences. Under the name Richard Burns, he has published more than 25 books. In the 1970s, he founded and ran the international Cambridge Poetry Festival. In the UK he has received the Eric Gregory Award, the Wingate-Jewish Quarterly Award for Poetry, the Keats Poetry Prize, and the Yeats Club Prize. In Serbia, he has received the international Morava Charter Poetry Prize and the Great Lesson Award, and in Macedonia (FYR), the Manada Prize. He has been Writer-in-Residence at the international Eliot-Dante Colloquium in Florence, Arts Council Writer-in-Residence at the Victoria Centre in Gravesend, Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, and a Royal Literary Fund Project Fellow. He has been Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame and British Council Lecturer in Belgrade. He is currently a Fellow of the English Association, a Bye-Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge and an Academic Associate at Pembroke College, Cambridge. His poems have been translated into more than 90 languages. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |