Summary
A new collection of poetry from one of England’s most gifted writers.
From an abandoned rowing boat in Estonia full of wild flowers to a swimming pool in the Congo full of drowned insects, Adam Thorpe’s new collection takes us on a wide-ranging journey through states of gain and loss, alienation and belonging. In the title poem, the poet disturbs a flock of geese by his mere presence, and one goose takes the wrong direction, away from the flock, as a ‘voluntary exile’. A bid for freed…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224094177 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224094173 |
| Author: | Adam Thorpe |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 112g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 8mm |
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He writes like a man in love with language, with the sheer possibilities of words. His work is musical, brimming with slant rhyme and assonance, and also subtle in its effects…dazzling
He writes like a man in love with language, with the sheer possibilities of words. His work is musical, brimming with slant rhyme and assonance, and also subtle in its effects…dazzling * Poetry Review *Best known for poetry and fiction that digs deep into the mythic layers of the English landscape, he weaves together past and present, grief and wonder, with delicacy and grace * Independent *[An] excellent collection * Guardian *Thorpe’s language is musical, open-hearted and extremely polished…this book as a whole is almost novelistic in its thematic quality, bringing forth ideas about time, presence and absence – Rev’d Oliver Dennis * Times Literary Supplement *
About The Author
Adam Thorpe
Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992, and he has published two books of stories, six poetry collections, and nine further novels, most recently Flight (2012).
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