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Item Details
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BETTER THAN GOD
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| By: |
Peter Porter |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0330460676 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780330460675 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2009 |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Description: |
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection |
| Synopsis: |
Better Than God sees the eighty-year-old Porter working with a lyric engine tuned to perfection, and a mind that shows every sign of speeding up: Porter can make a song of what another writer might take an essay to cover. Whether working in the forms of epigram or narrative, or writing of memory, mortality, Renaissance intrigue or the surreal distortions of old age -- Porter's faith in poetry as a road to the truth shines through. There are few other writers for whom contemporary events throw such long shadows or for whom the past is so present, and in Better Than God one has the sense of the poet attaining an increasingly commanding height. Porter remains one of the few poets we can open anywhere, and know that we will always be both enlightened and entertained. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Picador |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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