Английски език
Some lives are not remarkable for what happened in them. They are remarkable for what was noticed.
The Teller is a collection of twenty-one autobiographical poems by Christian Frank - a man who grew up in the North East of England, raised children, buried friendships, sat beside a grandmother with dementia, and spent a pandemic counting the days until ordinary life remembered how to interrupt itself.
These are poems about the things nobody thinks to write down: the biscuit tin that started a fight nobody understood for forty years. The moment a Body Attack class became a place of unexpected grace. The gym shower floor. The formula tin. The rusty swings. The soil of a garden that held every version of a family and is still waiting for more.
Frank writes with the discipline of a poet who has learned that the most honest sentence is usually the shortest one - and the warmth of a man who believes that love, at least among the people he has known, arrives disguised as loose change and never keeps score.
The Teller is for readers who do not usually read poetry. It is for anyone who has carried a story longer than they expected to - and discovered, eventually, that carrying it was the point.
