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A Darker Way

Grahame Davies

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Description:Grahame Davies’s  A Darker Way is a second volume after a well-received debut. The collection of poems and songs which traces a hard-won but redemptive path between idealism and irony, failure and faith. Davies is a poet in the bardic tradition who speaks to and for the community, exploring what it is to be human.   Davies is renowned, not only as a poet, but as a lyricist for some of the world’s best-known composers and soloists. His work has been broadcast to millions internationally, including during King Charles’s Coronation in the soprano solo ‘Sacred Fire’. English composer and impresario, Andrew Lloyd Webber, described the work as ‘mesmerising’ and journalist and film-maker Robert Hardman called it ‘exquisite’. Dealing with love and loss with both realism and compassion, Davies’s lyrics explore belief and unbelief, meaning and mystery, speaking for a contemporary sensibility wearied by supposed certainties yet longing for a sense of significance.   A Darker Way  also includes work arising from Davies’s Welsh roots. For example, ‘Wrth Ddŵr a Thân’ (‘By Water and Fire’) was commissioned by the Senedd for its 2016 opening and references the Pierhead Building’s mural ‘Wrth Ddŵr a Thân’, commemorating the country’s coal, steel and maritime industries.   The moving sequence ‘Aberfan’ memorialises the deaths of 144 people including 116 children, in the Aberfan Disaster of October 21, 1966. Davies, who played a role in the 20th and 50th anniversary events, revisits the tragedy, responding to historic pictures of the town taken in the days after the disaster by Life magazine photographer I.C. ‘Chuck’ Rapoport.  Davies’s work has been compared to that of Philip Larkin, alert to both the superficiality and the seriousness of the everyday. These poems are curious about people, such as the local characters in poems like ‘Speedway Eddie’ or ‘Happy Larry’s Funeral’, whose lives challenge our conventions and our assumptions. Davies’s poems often show that human feelings are complicated and surprising. In ‘One Human Soul’, a mysterious graffito prompts troubling self-questioning, in ‘Diaries’ a house move unearths memories the speaker can scarcely bear to confront, while in ‘Colleague’ an unexpected encounter with a former fellow worker reveals unsuspected depths.  The spiritual, even the supernatural, is never far from the surface in these poems, but Davies never settles for the simplistic. Belief and unbelief are held in a creative tension, as the poet faces ‘a mystery all the greater for the answer / a darkness all the deeper for the star.’ Being a poet seems to demand taking that ‘darker way’ close to the precariousness of life, but Davies’ quiet, unassuming style is powerful, moving, and redemptive.  We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Darker Way. To get started finding A Darker Way, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Grahame Davies’s  A Darker Way is a second volume after a well-received debut. The collection of poems and songs which traces a hard-won but redemptive path between idealism and irony, failure and faith. Davies is a poet in the bardic tradition who speaks to and for the community, exploring what it is to be human.   Davies is renowned, not only as a poet, but as a lyricist for some of the world’s best-known composers and soloists. His work has been broadcast to millions internationally, including during King Charles’s Coronation in the soprano solo ‘Sacred Fire’. English composer and impresario, Andrew Lloyd Webber, described the work as ‘mesmerising’ and journalist and film-maker Robert Hardman called it ‘exquisite’. Dealing with love and loss with both realism and compassion, Davies’s lyrics explore belief and unbelief, meaning and mystery, speaking for a contemporary sensibility wearied by supposed certainties yet longing for a sense of significance.   A Darker Way  also includes work arising from Davies’s Welsh roots. For example, ‘Wrth Ddŵr a Thân’ (‘By Water and Fire’) was commissioned by the Senedd for its 2016 opening and references the Pierhead Building’s mural ‘Wrth Ddŵr a Thân’, commemorating the country’s coal, steel and maritime industries.   The moving sequence ‘Aberfan’ memorialises the deaths of 144 people including 116 children, in the Aberfan Disaster of October 21, 1966. Davies, who played a role in the 20th and 50th anniversary events, revisits the tragedy, responding to historic pictures of the town taken in the days after the disaster by Life magazine photographer I.C. ‘Chuck’ Rapoport.  Davies’s work has been compared to that of Philip Larkin, alert to both the superficiality and the seriousness of the everyday. These poems are curious about people, such as the local characters in poems like ‘Speedway Eddie’ or ‘Happy Larry’s Funeral’, whose lives challenge our conventions and our assumptions. Davies’s poems often show that human feelings are complicated and surprising. In ‘One Human Soul’, a mysterious graffito prompts troubling self-questioning, in ‘Diaries’ a house move unearths memories the speaker can scarcely bear to confront, while in ‘Colleague’ an unexpected encounter with a former fellow worker reveals unsuspected depths.  The spiritual, even the supernatural, is never far from the surface in these poems, but Davies never settles for the simplistic. Belief and unbelief are held in a creative tension, as the poet faces ‘a mystery all the greater for the answer / a darkness all the deeper for the star.’ Being a poet seems to demand taking that ‘darker way’ close to the precariousness of life, but Davies’ quiet, unassuming style is powerful, moving, and redemptive.  We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Darker Way. To get started finding A Darker Way, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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