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Yesterday the heat
The light receded the shadows tapered into long rays . . .

‘Hey you, do you know where we are?’

How comforting a light in the darkness
Any light
from ‘Archaeologies’

Pindar's writing gestures towards a public language . . . though this is regularly undermined by the comic and sardonic . . . The poetry thrives on this flexibility of tone, its declarations constantly being shifted, contested and contradicted . . . Much of the book is made up of elusive, uneasy parables. . . that hover between pessimism and hope, and the potential of language to articulate this predicament. - the Guardian

It was about time for somebody to be channelling Eliot, maybe Stevens, Laforgue, and the Metaphysicals to such clashing effect: ‘bright as a seedsman’s packet’, with unexpected timbres and sonorities sabotaged by glockenspiel accents. Pindar is just right for the job - John Ashbery

In this sparkling début collection Ian Pindar brilliantly fulfils Verlaine’s injunction to the poet to take eloquence and wring its neck. Emporium offers the reader a beguiling and compendious range of styles and voices, and signals the arrival of a fascinating and original poet - Mark Ford

CONTENTS

Figure Study
Mrs Beltinska in the Bath
On the French Riviera
Monsters of Philosophy
A Dog One Afternoon
Society of Blood
Anecdote of the Car
Marc Chagall: The Poet Reclining
Parable
Advice for Travellers
Poem
What is the Matter?
Archaeologies
Snow
The King’s Evil
Les Vacances de Monsieur P.
Chain Letter
Of Truth
Suggestions for Further Reading
Two Figs
The Prophecies
Casanova
Cārvāka/Lokāyata
Windows
Gods of the Near Future
After Birth
Big Bumperton on the Sabbath
Ashes
Death of a Senator
Birds
Illustrated Evenings
Parasite
Joan Miró: Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement
It Takes a Man
Everybody’s Talking about Antonin Artaud
The Wasp and the Orchid
Armageddon
Black Jelly Baby
Kissing
Dust
Loon
Silent Spectres
The Rainy Day Murders
An Accident in Soho
Lost
Insomnia
Time Remaining

Notes

Ian Pindar was born in London in 1970. He published his first work, a life of James Joyce, in 2004. Emporium, his debut poetry collection, appeared in 2011. Constellations is his second collection. His poems have appeared in The English Review, The Forward Book of Poetry 2011 and 2012 ... read more

Awards won by Ian Pindar Short-listed, 2010 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Commended, 2010 Supplementary prize in the Bridport Prize
Runner-up, 2009 National Poetry Competition 2009

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Emporium Ian Pindar 10% off eBook (EPUB) Categories: 21st Century Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! 0 (Pub. Aug 2011) 9781847778475 £9.95 £8.96 Paperback (83 pages) (Pub. May 2011) 9781847770653 Out of Stock To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions. Description Excerpt Author Contents Awards Yesterday the heat The light receded the shadows tapered into long rays . . . ‘Hey you, do you know where we are?’ How comforting a light in the darkness Any light from ‘Archaeologies’ Pindar's writing gestures towards a public language . . . though this is regularly undermined by the comic and sardonic . . . The poetry thrives on this flexibility of tone, its declarations constantly being shifted, contested and contradicted . . . Much of the book is made up of elusive, uneasy parables. . . that hover between pessimism and hope, and the potential of language to articulate this predicament. - the Guardian It was about time for somebody to be channelling Eliot, maybe Stevens, Laforgue, and the Metaphysicals to such clashing effect: ‘bright as a seedsman’s packet’, with unexpected timbres and sonorities sabotaged by glockenspiel accents. Pindar is just right for the job - John Ashbery In this sparkling début collection Ian Pindar brilliantly fulfils Verlaine’s injunction to the poet to take eloquence and wring its neck. Emporium offers the reader a beguiling and compendious range of styles and voices, and signals the arrival of a fascinating and original poet - Mark Ford CONTENTS Figure Study Mrs Beltinska in the Bath On the French Riviera Monsters of Philosophy A Dog One Afternoon Society of Blood Anecdote of the Car Marc Chagall: The Poet Reclining Parable Advice for Travellers Poem What is the Matter? Archaeologies Snow The King’s Evil Les Vacances de Monsieur P. Chain Letter Of Truth Suggestions for Further Reading Two Figs The Prophecies Casanova Cārvāka/Lokāyata Windows Gods of the Near Future After Birth Big Bumperton on the Sabbath Ashes Death of a Senator Birds Illustrated Evenings Parasite Joan Miró: Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement It Takes a Man Everybody’s Talking about Antonin Artaud The Wasp and the Orchid Armageddon Black Jelly Baby Kissing Dust Loon Silent Spectres The Rainy Day Murders An Accident in Soho Lost Insomnia Time Remaining Notes Ian Pindar was born in London in 1970. He published his first work, a life of James Joyce, in 2004. Emporium, his debut poetry collection, appeared in 2011. Constellations is his second collection. His poems have appeared in The English Review, The Forward Book of Poetry 2011 and 2012 ... read more Awards won by Ian Pindar Short-listed, 2010 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Commended, 2010 Supplementary prize in the Bridport Prize Runner-up, 2009 National Poetry Competition 2009 You might also be interested in: The Baboons of Hada Eric Ormsby Rough Music Fiona Sampson	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog We've Moved! read more Books of the Year read more One Little Room: Peter McDonald read more Collected Poems: Mimi Khalvati read more Invisible Dog: Fabio Morbito, translated by Richard Gwyn read more Dante's Purgatorio: Philip Terry read more
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