| Docklands: A Ghost Story Contributor(s): Davies, Damian Walford (Author) |
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ISBN: 1781724938 ISBN-13: 9781781724934 Publisher: Seren Books OUR PRICE: $14.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.25 lbs) 64 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It is 1890, and three dark terraces down the docks of Victorian Cardiff are to be levelled to make way for a new square. A disquieting fin-de-si cle ghost story in verse, Docklands explores grey worlds at the edges of the eye, conjuring late-Victorian Cardiff's hustling, booming, sullied docks and the horrors they conceal. A study of the violences perpetrated against wives and daughters, and of patterns of grief and longing, this disturbing sequence summons lost children and dark desires. Seen through the architect's eyes, the well-to-do streets of an expanding Cardiff and the shady spaces of the docks become the stage for a haunting play of presences that threaten to unravel his uneasy bourgeois world. |