In the Lateness of the World: Poems
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 273864-211735-1282
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books
- ISBN
- 9780525560401
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Seventeen years in the making, In the Lateness of the World represents an extended reflection on the lifetime of an artist and activist. Its epic sweep includes Finland, Italy, Russia, and Vietnam, but the book’s prevailing themes of migration, travel and crossing are balanced by the stillness and precision of the poems with their forensic, lingering attention to language, the limits of seeing, and the variety of form.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- In the Lateness of the World is a book of border crossings: geographical, historical and mortal. Its main subjects include genocide and displacement, ecological disaster and nationalism. However, the book’s handling of world events is not documentary in form. Rather the collection is grounded in the notion of what Forché has famously called a ‘poetry of witness’, which means a scrupulous avoidance of mimetic forms and political confession, and an embrace of the limits of language and comprehension. Accordingly, the poems of In the Lateness of the World do not seek to describe events in the conventional sense, rather they are events, in the sense that they work to bring into being the experience of the other.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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