Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Out to Dry in Cape Breton, Hardback Book

Out to Dry in Cape Breton Hardback

Hardback

Item not Available

Description

Like the laundry that greets readers at the start of Anita Lahey's astonishing debut -- hanging on clotheslines and bodied out in breezes -- the poems in this collection exist in a state of thrumming levitation.

Lahey's scampish play with idioms, her accelerated sense of traditional forms, and her omnivorous eye for fresh imagery lead to a poetry constantly streaming with surprises.

These are musical, hyperstimulated, shape-shifting poems that draw on their subjects -- a high diver, World War I female munitions workers, a mangled shopping cart -- to conduct inspired, often irreverent, investigations into the marginal details of our world.

The collection concludes with a long poem where Lahey's gifts combine to create a large-spirited, unsentimental vision of a Maritime world free of fiddlers and romantic fishing tales: one instead brimming with honesty, humour, paradox, and grit.

Information

Save 31%

£14.99

£10.25

Item not Available
Item not Available
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information