Border - Softcover

Bennet, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852249935 ISBN 13: 9781852249939

Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2013

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Críticas:

'Verbal panache that borders on the dandyish; conventional stanzas, predominantly iambic metre and occasional or elusive rhymes lend a misleadingly reassuring air to a poetry that is full of bold imaginative strokes, subversive connections and dark wit.' - Poetry Book Society Bulletin. 'But such is Bennet's way: in his world nothing is ever simple, and he tells us so with a linguistic inventiveness and panache that are rare in contemporary verse.' - Times Literary Supplement. 'Peter Bennet's supple and musically precise poems are charged with a sense of the uncanny, whether their subject is history, art or myth. Droll, frightening, crackling with an unmistakable intelligence and intensity of utterance, these poems consolidate and extend the achievement of one of the country's most exciting poets.' - Jacob Polley.

Reseña del editor:

Peter Bennet reports from the border between plausible narrative and the wilder territories of the imagination. This collection brings together his best work of the past fifteen years, including poems from his T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted collection, The Glass Swarm, and his four major sequences, The Long Pack, Jigger Nods, Folly Wood and Bobby Bendick's Ride. As Andrew Motion put it, these poems establish the criteria by which they must be judged...

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• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1852249935
• ISBN 13: 9781852249939
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200