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 The Justice of the Night
- poems by
- Glen Cavaliero
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- This
sixth collection of poems by Glen Cavaliero is perhaps a
little darker in tone than his previous volumes. Peter
Scupham said of Ancestral Haunt in PN
Review that it was 'Formally adroit, various in
tone, this collection is quite unconcerned with the
skin-deep.' This applies no less to The Justice of the
Night which covers a wide range of subjects in
a variety of poetic styles and methodologies. In the
words of Glyn Pursglove, he is 'a poet with much to
offer. . . Very well worth getting to know.'
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- 'Like
Geoffrey Hill, Cavaliero evades statement, suggests and
then withdraws behind the glittering surface of the poem.
Nevertheless the poems can be read as exploring the
possibility of transcendence, in a time and place when
all the old coats are worn out.' Janet McCann,
The Powys Journal.
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- Contents: 'The First Lesson', 'Points of
Recognition', 'Sky Light', 'Solo', 'Mater', 'Armistice',
'The Grange', 'Lay-By', 'Doomsday', 'Golden Girl', 'The
Auditors', 'Bolt Hole', 'Winky', 'In Mrs Blicker's Room',
'That Old Black Magic', 'Sad Old Song', 'A
Metamorphosis', 'View Halloo', 'The Brown Way', 'Dark
Tower', 'Just for the Record', 'Garbo Talks',
'Bexhill-sur-Mer', 'Recantation', 'Moroccan Blues', 'The
Wise Woman of Amounderness', 'Spoil', 'Ground Level',
'London Fires', 'Museum and New Moon', 'Hellingly', 'A
Legacy', 'Elegy for James', 'Mountain Rescue',
'Memorial', 'Bound in Green', 'Watcher of the Deep', 'The
Doorway', 'Mater Dei', 'Dismissal', 'By Command', 'On the
March', 'Promised Land', 'Cat Nap', 'Settlement', 'Dulce
Domum', 'La Gonterie', 'Midwinter Burial', 'Moving
House', 'A Spell of Vertigo', 'Wakey Wakey!', 'Dead
Ringers', 'Zero Summer', 'Dedication'.
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- Glen
Cavaliero is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
He lives and works in Cambridge, where he is a member of
the University Faculty of English and a Fellow Commoner
of St Catharine's College. He will be known to many
afficionadoes of the supernatural fiction genre for his
study The Supernatural and English
Fiction, and for his introductions to Tartarus
editions of Three Miles Up by Elizabeth Jane Howard,
Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker and
The Sense of the Past by Henry James. He
has also been a contributor to Wormwood (issues 2 and
5)
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- ISBN
978-1-905784-01-1
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- The
Justice of the Night is a sewn hardback of 88
pages.
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- Price
£12.99/$26 inc. p&p.
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- Reviews:
- "It is
characteristic of [Cavaliero] and his poetry as a whole
that he offers no easy comfort, no easy assurance; and
the verse, tautly combining mythology and motorways, the
classic deportment of the ode with a diction garnered
from fields not tilled by the grand style, is the
appropriate vehicle of a vision which is strenuous,
unflinching, and comprehensive. . . . footnote. The
hardcover volume is beautifully produced by Tartarus
Press: printed in elegant type on quality paper and with
a very handsome dust wrapper. . . " Derek de Silva,
Poetry Salzburg Review.
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- "Cavaliero is a visionary, taking us
beyond the manifestly seen and felt." - Edward Gauntlett,
The Charles Williams
Quarterly, Summer 2007
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- For more
information on Glen Cavaliero please click
here
Page updated
23rd March 2008
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