{"id":8296,"date":"2018-04-03T17:09:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/?post_type=product&p=8296"},"modified":"2020-11-03T14:50:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:50:59","slug":"cyclone","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/books\/cyclone","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cyclone is one eloquent burn.
\n-Michael Dennis, Today’s Book of Poetry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“Cyclone takes the strengths of Robert Peake\u2019s previous work – candour, intensity, a hard-won wit–and enters the storm, in search of an answer to the question raised by his heartbreaking \u2018Why I Should Be Over It By Now\u2019. Built around four remarkable sequences, this new collection takes him into the most difficult of territories–grief and parental loss–to recover the possibility, however fugitive, of healing. The \u2018Cyclone\u2019 here is both personal and political. In such turbulent and shrill times, this is his most powerful work to date.”
\n-Michael Symmons Roberts, author of Drysalter, winner of the Forward Prize<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Robert Peake\u2019s second full-length collection of poems urges us to find shelter as a storm is gathering and the forces of destruction threaten to rip through anything in their path. These are matters of life or death, and Cyclone urges us to consider what the ill wind may bring, and how we will survive it.<\/p>\n

“Homesickness, belonging, and travelling without arriving are just some of the terrain covered in Peakes Cyclone, but it\u2019s the vitality and emotional courage in the language of these poems that one is most struck by—language stepping in and out of the shadows and yearning \u2018in the silt-choked afterlife of someone\u2019s grief.\u2019 A beautiful book that deserves to be lingered over and read widely.”
\n-Mona Arshi, author of Small Hands, winner of the Forward Prize for best first collection<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Peake\u2019s poetry is acutely tuned, bringing eloquence and urgency to matters of profound devastation. With shattering delicacy, he writes of personal loss, of grief and the long aftermath; \u201cwhenever the wind sprays into my face, I taste salt of your absence\u201d. These poems also hazard an eye at the global weather and find a world in turmoil, wild with unreliable news and terrible forecasts.<\/p>\n

“Relentless and gorgeous, Cyclone is where poems of awe and of mourning the infinite
\n‘cognates of grief’ converge, bless and roar. In its searching for ‘What Will Survive Us,’ Robert Peake’s second collection is as tender as it is overwhelming, as intimate as it is expansive. He asks ‘What becomes of longing \/ when the fire goes out?’ ‘Has there
\never been such a thing as progress?’ ‘How much do you need?’ and answers with
\naftermaths, the ‘wild dance…between the gathering clouds and ionised land,’ a braving of history and memory and home. I am deeply thankful for this book–its guts, its grace.”
\n-R.A. Villanueva, author of Reliquaria, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Peake\u2019s second full-length collection of poems urges us to find shelter as a storm is gathering and the forces of destruction threaten to rip through anything in their path. These are matters of life or death, and Cyclone urges us to consider what the ill wind may bring, and how we will survive it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8273,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"product_cat":[1073],"product_tag":[1074,1075],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/8296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}