Gigantic Cinema

A Weather Anthology

Alice Oswald, Paul Keegan

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Jonathan Cape Ltd
03 November 2020

Diaries, letters & journals; Poetry anthologies; Literary essays; Weather

Edited by the finest British poet Alice Oswald and the celebrated anthologist Paul Keegan, a groundbreaking gathering of writing about nature's most dramatic spectacle- the weather

'It is in very truth a sunny, misty, cloudy, dazzling, howling, omniform Day...'

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Sotheby, 27 September 1802

This anthology of poems and prose ranges from literary weather - Homer's winds, Ovid's flood - to scientific reportage, whether Pliny on the eruption of Vesuvius or Victorian theories of the death of the sun. It includes imaginary as well as actual responses to what is transitory, and reactions both formal and fleeting - weather rhymes, journals and jottings, diaries and letters - to the drama unfolding above our heads.

The entries narrate the weather of a single capricious day, from dawn, through rain, volcanic ash, nuclear dust, snow, light, fog, noon, eclipse, hurricane, flood, dusk, night and back to dawn again. Rather than drawing attention to authors and titles, entries appear bareheaded, exposed to each other's elements, as a medley of voices. Rather than adding to our image of nature as a suffering solid, the anthology attends to patterns, events and forces- seasonal and endless, invisible, ephemeral, sudden, catastrophic. And by assembling a chorus of responses (ancient and modern, East and West) to air's manifold appearances, Gigantic Cinema offers a new perspective on what is the oldest conversation of all.

Edited by: Alice Oswald, Paul Keegan
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 217mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 494g
ISBN: 9781787332652
ISBN 10: 1787332659
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 03 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alice Oswald's poetry collections include Dart, which won the 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize, Woods etc. (Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), A Sleepwalk on the Severn (Hawthornden Prize), Weeds and Wildflowers (Ted Hughes Award), Memorial (Warwick Prize for Writing), Falling Awake, which won the 2016 Costa Poetry Award and the Griffin Prize for Poetry and Nobody (2019). She is currently the Oxford University Professor of Poetry. Paul Keegan has been Penguin Classics Editor and Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber. His edited collections include The Penguin Book of English Verse and Collected Poems of Ted Hughes.