Rice plastic

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-80427-143-8
Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 112 Seiten

Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis, and satire, plastic is based on Matthew Rice's experience working in a plastic molding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty-first-century Irish labour in poetic form, plastic engages with the inflictions and implications of a 'post-industrial,' 'post-Troubles' society, all while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film, and the visual arts. plastic is a poem about feeling a calling whilst submerged in the world of menial labour, uniting what Jacques Rancière calls the 'labourers in love with the intellectual nights' and those 'intellectuals in love with the toilsome and glorious days of the labouring people.' plastic's evocation and lucidity moves with grace through working class realities and imaginings.

Matthew Rice was born in Belfast. Poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Forward Book of Poetry 2022 (Faber). He holds an MA in Poetry from Queen's University, Belfast, and a PhD from The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's. His debut collection, The Last Weather Observer (Summer Palace Press), was published in 2021 and was included on the Arts Council of Northern Ireland's top ten books of the year.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rice, Matthew