Unexhausted Time

Description

Feelings, messages, symbols, visions . . . Emily Berry's latest collection takes shape in the half-light between the real and the imagined, where everything is lost and yet 'nothing goes away'. Here life's innumerable impressions, moods, seasons and dj vus collect and disarrange themselves, while a glowing, companionable 'I' travels the mind's landscapes in hope of refuge and transformation amid these displaced moments in time. Whether one reads Unexhausted Time as a long poem to step into or a series of titled and untitled fragments to pick up and cherish, the work is healing and inspiring, always asking how we might harness the power of naming without losing life's 'magic unknownness'. By offering these intangible encounters, Emily Berry more truly presents 'what being alive is'. 'Emily Berry has a refreshingly free, not to say incendiary, approach to poetry.' - Observer

Emily Berry is the author of Dear Boy (2013) and Stranger, Baby (2017). She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

"Wise and mesmeric, Unexhausted Time feels like a balm for mind and soul in difficult times." -- Mary-Jean Chan "Berry has a gift for identifying the feelings at the back of the mind that are like thoughts you would prefer not to think... As readers, we need to meet these strange and intimate poems with a mind as open as Berry's and then be guided by our own inner compass." -- Observer