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The Snowboy, Pamphlet Book

The Snowboy Pamphlet

Part of the Salt Modern Poets series

Pamphlet

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Mark Burnhope's poems present a generous but moral quizzing of the world.

Peering out over disability, faith and the host of prejudices that spring from such ground, they negotiate a path through lyricism and music, didacticism and narrative, comedy and confession, slang and slur in their search for a voice with which to speak.

They visit town and sea, husband and wife and monuments to grief built of snow, steel, stone.

They take us to a hydrotherapy session, a talking tree and an outcast crew including Pinocchio, Queequeg and Quasimodo.

But at their heart, there is great warmth. Burnhope asks uncomfortable questions of the rhyme or reason for loss and healing, even as he challenges received perceptions of disabled life with wit, verve and an inclusive imagination.

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