Small Hours Paperback / softback
by Lachlan Mackinnon
Paperback / softback
Description
Lachlan MacKinnon's fourth collection opens with a gathering of lyrics and descriptive poems: observing rites of passage (elegies, wedding poems), offering nuanced accounts of places and their patchwork afterlives (the Midlands, a Suffolk sketchbook), or meditations on historical figures introspectively at odds with their time (King Canute, Edward Thomas).
This preoccupation with contingency - personal and historical - opens onto The Book of Emma: a long poem of fifty-four sections, written mostly in prose, which address a lost friend and contemporary in terms which seem laconically factual, but which draw their power from archaic conventions (Egyptian, Celtic) of talking to the dead.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:21/01/2010
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- ISBN:9780571253500
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:21/01/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780571253500