'Prized assets of a ghost economy': Some notes on The Unreturning. Issue 1 (1st December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Malone, Martin
• Is Part Of: Book 2.0. Volume 6:Issue 1/2(2016)
• Page Start: 21
• Page End: 33
• Publication Date: 2016-12-01
• Subjects: Book industries and trade -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; Publishers and publishing -- Periodicals; Book design -- Periodicals; Electronic publishing -- Periodicals; Books -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 070.5
• DOI: 10.1386/btwo.6.1-2.21_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2042-8022

Abstract

This article explores aspects of the creative strand of the author's research into Great War poetry and twenty-first-century legacies of the war itself. Whilst one of the two accompanying poetry collections retains a more discernible resemblance to the prevailing mode of lyric elegy, his prose poem sequence, The Unreturning, consciously seeks to disrupt this tradition by adopting the less common neo-modernist poetics of writers such as Geoffrey Hill. What follows is a brief discussion of work-in-progress towards the creation of more resonant and meaningful contexts for our remembrance of a century-old conflict that continues to enjoy extraordinary levels of cultural and political privilege in the United Kingdom.