{"product_id":"no-traveller-returns-9781876857882","title":"No Traveller Returns","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis poetry collection includes prose. Some pieces tell stories. Others half-express, half-explain, a certain pressure of situation. Poems in a book do not sound, or signify, as do poems extracted, or composed, to stand alone. The sequence matters, as does the whole. Prose, by the fact of its inclusion in a poetry collection, calls attention to its qualities, and to poetry’s differences, as it cannot do elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriters pick up on, think their way into, other voices. If this is objectionable, so is every attempt to understand others. The words on my pages derive from various areas in my mental landscape. One example: having read some Anglo-Saxon, the poetry of a people who understood the sea, I sought a way to render the rhythms and memories that, in England, recalled me to Trinidad. Without imitation, without the superimposition of one tradition on another experience, different bindings of language became available to tie and loosen what held my mind. The influences, and processes, are many and ongoing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI realized that this shifting of modes, which initially seemed natural, was not universally obvious. This became a concern within the writing. Identity politics; the lyrical I; were inadequate to a sense of self evolving from others and their words, accessible or arcane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is an autobiography, moving outwards from Trinidad; from the mind that feels free to report on the world, into the mind that knows it must question itself. Finally it becomes a way of honouring the dead, a logical journey’s-end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeware. The wisdom and originality that elegantly smolders in these pages, drives a startling and beautiful linguistic gearing; crafted silver turning on faultless glass. It purrs, chants, snarls and whispers in a profound clarity of entanglements. Haunting and unhinging the readers path with stealth. No one leaves this book alone. Beware.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Brian Catling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an important literary debut: the sound of a new, unique, captivating voice. The journey she describes with such ferocity and such an ebullient, unexpected sense of fun is also emotional, and she entices the reader into travelling with her. She triumphantly disproves the pessimism of her title: undiscovered countries are here spread out before us, ready for exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Peter Conrad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary poetic sequence is a kind of linked fantasia, the unflagging play of a powerful intelligence and consciousness over a series of themes: monsters of self-awareness or personal encounters, interspersed with memories and mental insights of piercing power and sympathy. It is an astonishing debut.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Bernard O’Donoghue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Mask in the Bone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmulet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEducation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhite as Jasmine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Cunaripo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor Dhumavati: Her Work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Sense of Vanishing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatch of the Day\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ei. Right There Outside\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eii. Unruffled Surface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eiii. Once Joined to the mainland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eiv. Stop: Warning: Danger: Valentine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInscription (Windward Isles)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePort-of-Spain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Stars Looked Different There\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNothing Poem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTime is an Unkind Dancer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClimacteric\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTurning Moment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhite Lilac Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMiss Havisham Will Not Burn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLight and Dark\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eObsessive Talk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Monster Scrapbook\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonster Postures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Monstrous Task\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOf the Character of Monsters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesdemona Resuscitated\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonster Deception\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeeing Without Looking\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Loft\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrameless by Choice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnd Again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Loft\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonster Pastimes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Hear the Monsters Singing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonster Flattery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLux Æterna Et Perpetua\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLactic Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTiredness Poem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStalkers’ Top Ten\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSilence Poem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Mud Flats\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLux Æterna Et Perpetua\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShape of a Vase\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAt the Butterfly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTenses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonster Consciousness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeep Colours Bleed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonster Consciousness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Loft\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonster Ways\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Day Outside\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonster Hunting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Religion of Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonster Hunting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRemove Packaging Before Use\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLetter from a Monster to a monster in Scotland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat is You Guy Really Like?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDry Clean Only\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonster Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonster Vision\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKing Vertigo and Queen Momentum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKing Vertigo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommuter Installation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWisdom in Character\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGone to Pieces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKing Vertigo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQueen Momentum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummoning Up the Spirit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFelling Trees\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoppelgänger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLilies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFleshed Perspective\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo Traveller Returns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Reason to Light More Fires\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo Traveller Returns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bleeding Obvious\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAntigone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt. Munditia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNattaraj\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771678458199,"sku":"9781876857882","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781876857882.jpg?v=1758728757","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/no-traveller-returns-9781876857882","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}