Demolition
$31.94
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2007
Summary
Brilliant new collection from winner of the National Poetry Competition
With the frank, subversive, and very funny poems in his first two books, Neil Rollinson established himself as a deft cartographer of the sensual world. While a rich and tactile eroticism still courses through Demolition, there is a new seriousness here, as mortality starts to throw its long shadow.
These poems occupy a more rueful, reflective space - provisional, mercurial and fragile - a darker …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224081719 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224081713 |
| Author: | Neil Rollinson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Cape Poetry |
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Critics Review
Rollinson…writes with waspish skill about adult encounters - particularly seduction.
Rollinson…writes with waspish skill about adult encounters - particularly seduction. – Rebecca Whittle * Financial Times *
About The Author
Neil Rollinson
Neil Rollinson is the author of four poetry collections- A Spillage of Mercury (1996), Spanish Fly (2001), Demolition (2007) and Talking Dead (2015). He won the National Poetry Competition in 1997, received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2005, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize for Talking Dead. The Dead Don’t Bleed is his debut novel, and won the Deborah Rogers Award for previously unpublished prose writers in 2023.
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