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 »
Root, Paperback / softback Book

Root Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Out of stock

Description

This is a collection in search of origins, a kind of 'delving', 'trying to get to the bottom of it'.

In a series of unsettling prose poems Black offers pieces of a fractured past.

The effect is memorable and often menacing, each poem glinting like a sliver from a broken mirror; language enacting the struggle to retrieve and reassemble an unauthorised past.

The difficulties of truth finding and telling are explored through shifts in identity and a syntax of qualifications and hesitations where everyday phrases take on a new and frightening resonance.

Domestic objects and rituals loom large in the distorted reflections of the poems, conveying a sense of wonderland gone wrong.

Information

  • Out of stock

  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:80 pages, black & white illustrations
  • Publisher:Shearsman Books
  • Publication Date:
  • Category:
  • ISBN:9781848611702

£9.95

Out of stock
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information

  • Out of stock

  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:80 pages, black & white illustrations
  • Publisher:Shearsman Books
  • Publication Date:
  • Category:
  • ISBN:9781848611702