Nocturnes - by Brendan James Gleeson (Paperback)

About the Book

Nocturnes is a contrubution to dramatic poetry that explores grief in the dreamworld in search of consolation..

Book Synopsis

Nocturnes: A Passage of Dreams is a play about grief and love. Their primal intimacy is its story.

Nocturnes thinks that what was painfully learned about love and grief in the early 20^th century remains troublingly true. Julia Kristeva puts it well: "...the insolence of the Freudian discovery was to show this: there is no love but failed love". Here is to failed love. May we survive it, learn from it, and outlive it.

Review Quotes

Beauty can emerge from pain as Brendan Gleeson demonstrates with this powerful evocation. The scope of his vision and imagination is remarkable, as is the evidence of growth. Brendan has always written with poetic flair. In this collection of poems and essays he taps into his dreams and lets his poetic brain free.

Julianne Schultz AM FAHA