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BIRDS WITH A BROKEN WING
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| By: |
Adam Thorpe |
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Paperback |
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£9.00 |
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£6.57 |
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£2.43 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0224079441 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780224079440 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2007 |
| Pages: |
80 |
| Description: |
Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief, this book presents poems that argue for bewilderment and 'the slight bruise of doubt'. It features poems that remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history and with ourselves; whether walking an abandoned road, or considering a friend's suicide. |
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Adam Thorpe's fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief - a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturnal path set against the 'insomniac' motorway; industrialised apples against wrinkled windfalls - his poems argue for bewilderment and 'the slight bruise of doubt'. Whether walking an abandoned road or considering a friend's suicide, his poems remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history, with ourselves. There are, however, all the vestiges of connective tissue - memories and mementoes, sudden, miraculous leaps of beauty. The book is full of such traces, delicate and fugitive: the poet's grandmother retrieved through her ninety-year-old bookmark of rose petals; the unvoiced suggestion of his mother's voice on an answerphone; the memory of a vanished native chief in a Canadian mountain's shadow... |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 2007 |
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Returnable |
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