{"product_id":"the-acts-of-oblivion-paperback","title":"The Acts of Oblivion - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Batchelor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 'Acts of Oblivion' were a series of seventeenth-century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends--pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary speech from the record--they forced the people to forget. Against such injunctions, Paul Batchelor's poems rebel. This long-awaited second collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Acts of Oblivion\u003c\/i\u003e, listens in on some of England's lost futures, such as those offered by radical but sidelined figures in the English Civil War, or by the deliberately destroyed mining communities of North East England, remembered here with bitter, illuminating force. The book also collects the acclaimed individual poems 'Brother Coal' and 'A Form of Words, ' alongside visions of the underworld as imagined by Homer, Lucian, Lucan, Ovid, and Dante. Intensely characterized and novelistic in their detail and in their grasp of national catastrophes, the poems in \u003ci\u003eThe Acts of Oblivion\u003c\/i\u003e vindicate Andrew McNeillie's description of Batchelor as 'the most accomplished poet of his generation.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnglish poet and critic \u003cb\u003ePaul Batchelor's\u003c\/b\u003e first collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eThe Sinking Road\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2008. A chapbook, \u003ci\u003eThe Love Darg\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Clutag in 2014. He has won the Times Stephen Spender Prize for Translation and the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Prize. His reviews have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian, Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e. He is Director of Creative Writing at Durham University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 24, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766273671456,"sku":"9781800171992","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/af76a6d4a69d5029a067e63906e9a7cb.webp?v=1780288939","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-acts-of-oblivion-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}