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The Time of the Angels

BySusan Watson

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'The Time of the Angels' is a sequence of poems in which a young woman reads and re-reads Sir Thomas Malory’s 'Morte D’Arthur' during the winter and spring of 1979. She is researching and writing an undergraduate dissertation, but her encounter with Malory is also a highly personal one; she perceives the centrality of ‘chances, choices, prophecies, destinies, past and future time’ and responds to an atmosphere of ‘loss soaking backwards through the pages like a tide receding’. And there is Malory’s voice: ‘a plain voice, threading beads’. Time, like the weather, seems frozen. The ‘winter of discontent’ with its strife and strikes is only a faint hum in the background, as is the approaching General Election. Time is also a long corridor in which a reader can walk briskly back and forth, knowing and still not knowing what will happen, experiencing events as accidental rather than inevitable. During the reading and re-reading, while the narrative continues, the reign of Arthur feels eternal and everlasting, but it must end, and badly.

Details

Publication Date
May 24, 2021
Language
English
ISBN
9781667171975
Category
Poetry
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Susan Watson

Specifications

Pages
32
Binding
Perfect Bound
Interior Color
Black & White
Dimensions
A5 (5.83 x 8.27 in / 148 x 210 mm)

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