Docklands by Damian Walford Davies - 9781781724934

DocklandsA Ghost Story\nAuthor(s): Damian Walford Davies\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Poetry Wales Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Seren\nISBN-13: 9781781724934, 978-1781724934\nSynopsis\nVictorian Cardiff the worlds busiest port, booming on the back of the coal mined in the Welsh valleys is vividly imagined through the eyes of the speaker of Damian Walford Daviess new poetry collection, Docklands: A Ghost Story. \n\nIt is 1890, and three dark terraces down the docks are to be levelled to make way for a new square. The commission is given to the chief partner in a successful Cardiff architectural firm a man supremely sure of himself. Yielding to docklands temptations, he becomes ever more estranged from a wife tormented by the death of their child. As the square rises from the ruins of the terraces, the louche architect encounters the girl.\n\nA disquieting fin-de-sicle ghost story in verse, Docklands explores grey worlds at the edges of the eye, conjuring late-Victorian Cardiff.