Northangerland Re-Versioning The Poetry Of Branwell Brontë
Leafe Press
ISBN13:
9781739721329
$20.10
In Northangerland Andrew Taylor has taken the black sheep of the Brontë family and pushed him centre-stage, repurposing Bronwyn's pseudonym as a title. 'Re-versioning', as Taylor dubs his process, is not so much offering a parallel text or a commentary on the original, but effects a distillation of it, isolating its essence, updating. He resembles Basil Bunting deleting and scribbling his way through Shakespeare's sonnets, as he exchanges Brontë's rhetoric for sculpted lines and deft sound-shapes (the rhymes chiming internally across their precise new line-breaks). Taylor is like an architect decluttering the Brontë Parsonage into a modern minimalist and open plan living space: 'forms refuse the real/ & unreal to confuse phantom/ paths of joy'. For all its careful acknowledgement of sources, this is an assured work for our times. Robert Sheppard
- | Author: Andrew Taylor
- | Publisher: Leafe Press
- | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 74 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1739721322
- | ISBN-13: 9781739721329
- Author:
- Andrew Taylor
- Publisher:
- Leafe Press
- Publication Date:
- Sep 30, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 74 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1739721322
- ISBN-13:
- 9781739721329