Michael Hulse's moving new collection is a quest for the meaning of home. These are meditations on the parents and childhood God he has lost, the national legacies of England and Germany he was born into, and the discovery of home through love.
The marriage of imaginative scope and emotional directness that Sean O'Brien observed in Michael Hulse's writing has never been so compellingly displayed as in these poems. Tender, venturesome, charged with intellectual energy, Home is eloquent testimony to Hulse's technical virtuosity, and shows a poet at the height of his powers.
"Compelling and moving." Poetry Review
"A reckless, generous and remarkable collection of poems." Acumen
"There is raw honesty and considerable depth contained in the poetry's craftsmanship... This is his talent at its height." Stella Stocker
"The Secret History is highly recommended." PN Review
Author's Note I: Caput Mortuum II: To my Father, All Saints' Day in
Konz, White, The Tunic of Christ, Break of Day on Patmos III: Home Coming,
The Kid, From Fatehpur Sikri, Ze Peixe, The Shadow of Death, Television,
Winterreise IV: Photographs of K., Industry, New York, New York, Kiss /
Bliss, Golbach, The Wind at Vinci, The Secret History, The Garden
Biographical Note
Michael Hulse's poetry has won him firsts in the National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Poetry Prize (twice), and Eric Gregory and Cholmondeley Awards from the Society of Authors, and has taken him on reading tours throughout the world. He has worked in universities, publishing and documentary television, has edited literary quarterlies, poetry series and anthologies, and literature classics, and has translated more than sixty books from the German, among them works by W. G. Sebald, Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, Goethe and Rilke. He is a permanent judge of the Gunter Grass Foundation's biennial international literary award, the Albatross Prize, and teaches at the University of Warwick.
