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Blood Feather

- ‘He writes with Proustian élan and Nabokovian delight’ John Banville

  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 80 sider

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In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves

'This is McGuinness's best collection by far, and stands out from the crowd'

SUNDAY TIMES

In Blood Feather, a book of doubling and displacement, we see time in a new way: the past, personal and collective, lingering as an ever-present ghost - while lost beyond recall.

The first section, 'Squeeze the Day' - a series of deeply moving poems about the author's mother, displaced between languages - investigates her illness and death; how being bilingual is like having a double, a second self; how each self haunts the other. 'The Noises Things Make When They Leave' elegises today's post-industrial landscapes, their people and professions: sidelined by literature, bypassed by globalisation. The final sequence, 'After the Flood', links the book's themes, seeking a way of seeing things for the first time and the last time simultaneously. Exploring the gaps between languages and between our selves in language, Patrick McGuinness dreams of a new tense in which the world's losses are redeemed:

It's the anniversary of my mother's death,

and it's my mother's birthday -

the day she short-circuited the tenses,

made the current flow both ways.

A clear-sighted, intimate new poetry collection from the prizewinning author of Other People's Countries and Throw me to the Wolves.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal80
  • Udgivelsesdato04-05-2023
  • ISBN139780224098311
  • Forlag Jonathan Cape Ltd
  • FormatPaperback
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt100 g
  • Dybde0,9 cm
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    10 cm
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    13,3 cm
    19,8 cm

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