A Stone Dog
A Stone Dog by Aidan Semmens, published by Shearsman Books in 2011, is a full-length poetry collection comprising 77 pages. This edition presents Semmens’s unique approach to poetry, which is influenced by his extensive background in journalism. His work features a blend of word-play and natural speech rhythms, exploring themes such as death and complexity while drawing from diverse sources, including news magazines and war diaries.
Readers will find a collection that engages with ideas and allusions, where narratives are often subverted and lead to unexpected conclusions. Semmens’s poetry reflects a rich tapestry of influences, including popular science and psychology texts, as well as elements from the 2001 Aldeburgh Festival programme. This collection invites readers to navigate a landscape of thought-provoking imagery and language, making it a noteworthy addition to contemporary poetry.
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Thirty-some years in journalism have left little obvious trace in Aidan Semmens’s poetry-though, like the sports headlines he writes for the News of the World, his verse is grounded in word-play and natural speech rhythms. In his first full-length collection he engages death, complexity, and the Authorised Version, which provides several of his titles. Other sources for his language include news magazines, war diaries, popular science and psychology texts, overheard phrases and the 2001 Aldeburgh Festival programme. This is a poetry of ideas and allusions, where, as in music or dream, any hinted-at narrative is liable to be subverted, taken to unexpected ends.
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