Selected Poems (Cape Poetry) - Hardcover

Sweeney, Matthew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224062123 ISBN 13: 9780224062121

Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Representing the best of ten books and twenty years' work, MatthewSweeney's Selected Poems is a magical mystery tour into his strange, unsettling world. Readers familiar with his poetry will be used to being led astray by his cordial, confiding wit, ambushed by his sinister twists, taken in by his intimate, untrustworthy narrators. Those who are coming to the work for the first time may feel a measure of alarm and disquiet at the way the poems shift - almost without your noticing - from a fireside chat to a tale of terror, from the commonplace to the hallucinatory, from the surprisingly real to the really surprising. These are the secret, spiky narratives from the arch story-teller, the mixer of hilarity and menace, the past-master of fractured realism. The world would be a poorer place without these oblique but oddly lucid poems from Matthew Sweeney's haunted imagination.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Matthew Sweeney was born in Donegal and has lived in London for many years. Apart from his poetry, he has written children's fiction and edited three anthologies, Beyond Bedlam (with Ken Smith), Emergency Kit (with Jo Shapcott) and the New Faber Book of Children's Verse.

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the best of ten books and twenty years work, these are the secret, spiky narratives from the arch story-teller, the mixer of hilarity and menace, the past-master of fractured realism a magical mystery tour into the strange, unsettling world that is Matthew Sweeney s haunted imagination.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0224062123
• ISBN 13: 9780224062121
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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