POETRY
80 Pages, 5 x 8
Formats: Paperback, ebook: EPUB, Mobipocket, ebook: PDF
Paperback, $16.95 (US $16.95) (CA $18.95)
Publication Date: April 2010
ISBN 9781847770844
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Will it work on my eReader?Joyful, elegiac, and immediate, these lyric and often celebratory poems engage personal and natural history, nation-states and mental states, violence, religion, and poetry itself. An ecologically focused collection, each poem affirms life as all-becoming, dwelling on metaphors such as mountains and valleys, the changing seasons, and the vastness of the sea. Divided into two parts—“Song in Winter,” a collection of unrepentantly self-indulgent verse, and “At Sea,” containing extended tributes to George Campbell, W. S. Graham, J. M. Synge, and others—these astonishing poems, taken as a whole, work against formalities while maintaining a fluid rhyming structure.
Andrew McNeillie is an editor at Oxford University Press and the author of Nevermore and Now, Then, Slower.