The Distance of a Shout: Selected Poems
$29.64
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
6 July 2026
Summary
From independence movements in Sri Lanka to train stations in contemporary Ontario, an intimate and witty selection of Michael Ondaatje’s most widely loved poems, taken across fifty years.
“My life always stops for a new book by Michael Ondaatje” – JHUMPA LAHIRI
Through poems that grow out of his profound understanding of the subtle complexities of life and relationships, of how we lose and find ourselves, Michael Ondaatje navigates his own past, beginning with memories of his…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787336315 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178733631X |
| Author: | Michael Ondaatje |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 6 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 139mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels, a memoir titled Running in the Family, a non-fiction book on film called The Conversations- Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film, and several books of poetry, including The Cinnamon Peeler and Handwriting.
His novel The English Patient received the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018, and was adapted into a film directed by Anthony Minghella. Anil’s Ghost was awarded the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Medicis.
Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.
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