Description
Flyweight is and isn’t about boxing. An epigraph in ‘Match’ quotes the Irish Featherweight champion, Barry McGuigan. When asked why he boxed, he replied: “I box because I can’t be a poet.”
Flyweight is and isn’t about poetry. Although the affinity between the two is almost a literary standard, with poets from Apollinaire to Declan Ryan equally compelled by the subject, figuring it repeatedly across a series of myth- making, metaphorising projects, as its own species of expressive language, improvised in action; the kind of poetry you live rather than write, the kind of poetry that chews you up, the kind that swallows you whole.
Details
Publisher - Culture Matters
Language - English
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
Maggie Sawkins
Published Date - 2025-09-11
ISBN - 9781912710799
Dimensions - 21 x 14.8 x 0.2 cm
Page Count - 40
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