Amplified Silence by Kieran Egan (English) Paperback Book

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Amplified Silence explores the pleasures of memory as well as the sorrows of aging, These poems will long linger qnd draw the reader back to open the book yet again, as time passes.

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Amplified Silence is a mellow offering of poetry surveying a variety of natural and human landscapes both domestic and international. Egan explores life and the living in expansive depth, with vivid insight and the gentle brush of humour. In these poems, In these poems the volume-level of silence evolves to speak through life's hazy shadows with the clear-eyed awareness of a sparkling magnifying glass. Kieran Egan excels at exploring the pleasures of memory as well as the sorrows of aging, There are many diverse journeys encompassed in this book enhanced with flashes of grace and the gratitude felt by the author for a life well-lived. These poignant poems will long linger in the mind of the reader and continue to draw the reader back to open the book yet again, as time passes ... then passes again.

Author Biography

Kieran Egan, Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. His chapbook, 'Among the branches, ' was published by Alfred Gustav Press, in June, 2019. He was shortlisted for the Times Literary Supplement Mick Imlah prize in 2017 and the Acumen International Poetry Competition, 2020. His poems have appeared in many national and international magazines. In a former life he published around twenty more or less academic books, with forty or so translations into about twenty other languages. Kieran Egan lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Review

Each finely crafted poem in this well-tempered, mellow and warily wise collection voices the mature savoir-faire of one who has surveyed the natural and human landscapes - local, familial and across the globe, their myths and histories - in expansive depth, with caring insight. Weighing what is rememberable against what tends to be forgotten, Amplified Silence shows how "the past reaches forward," while precisely measuring the volume-level at which silence itself rises to speak. In multiple dimensions it will leave readers moved and enlarged. Allan Briesmaster, author of "Confluences" and "The Long Bond". Though shadowed by a keen sense of history and a clear-eyed awareness of violence, Egan's humorously thoughtful poetry excels at evoking the lives of children and animals and at exploring the pleasures of memory as well as the sadness of ageing, His linguistic skills will charm and beguile. Christopher Levenson, co-founder and first editor of ARC magazine. and author of "Night Vision" and "A Tattered Coat Upon a StickDiverse journeys, both actual and imagined, coalesce in a collection that not only explores those occasional flashes of grace and "happy lightning" during a lifetime, but also the "slow slaughter" of aging. Insights about memory, humanity and mortality bloom from the "root of this writing hand" and will linger in the mind long after the reader turns the last page. Fiona Tinwei Lam-author of "Odes and Laments" and "Enter the Crysanthemum".

Details ISBN1774031574 Pages 90 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1774031574 ISBN-13 9781774031575 Format Paperback Publication Date 2021-11-06 UK Release Date 2021-11-06 Imprint Silver Bow Publishing Author Kieran Egan Publisher Silver Bow Publishing Audience General We've got this

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