The Half Healed
$39.67
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2008
Summary
His first collection since the Whitbread-winning Corpus.
The poems in Michael Symmons Roberts’s fifth collection move in a world riven by violence and betrayal, between nations and individuals. As ever, this is a metaphysical poetry rooted in physical detail - but the bodies here are displaced, disguised, in need of rescue. A man in a fox suit prowls the woods afraid of meeting true foxes, while a vixen dressed as a man moves among the powerful at society soirees. God no long…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224085670 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224085670 |
| Author: | Michael Symmons Roberts |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 7mm |
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I love Michael Symmons Roberts’s poetry. He is a religious poet in a secular age. His work is about the connection between the things of the spirit and the things of the world. And his work is about transcendence – Jeanette WintersonAn individual in contemporary verse, Michael Symmons Roberts writes a numinous poetry that listens ‘for the footfalls of God in the Garden’ – Stephen Knight * Independent on Sunday *A luminous collection based on the body that has seen [Roberts] likened to Donne – Hephzibah Anderson * Daily Mail *Exploring new outlooks and new worlds, Michael Symmons Roberts’ religious poems… seem designed for an age of doubt and DNA – Alan Brownjohn * Sunday Times *An outstanding writer * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Michael Symmons Roberts
Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire. He has published eight collections of poetry and received a number of accolades including the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Award and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. His Selected Poems was published in 2016. As a librettist, his work has been performed in concert halls and opera houses around the world, and he is an award-winning broadcaster and dramatist. He is professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, his Quartet for the End of Time- On Music, Grief and Birdsong was published in 2025.
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