Dog Star
$29.77
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
25 May 2026
Summary
Dog Star: Poems of a World Adrift
An inviting and poignant new poetry collection exploring our increasingly turbulent relationship with nature, from award-winning poet Michael Symmons Roberts.
Dog Star is a book of linked poems rooted in encounters with real, imagined or mythical birds, trees, fish, flowers, bacteria, chimeras - ancient connections reshaped by technological and political change and critically endangered by species and habitat loss.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787336032 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787336034 |
| Author: | Michael Symmons Roberts |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 25 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 128g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 132mm x 9mm |
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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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