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The Zoo of the New: A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Paul Muldoon
Nick Laird
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'So open it anywhere, then anywhere, then anywhere again. We're sure it won't be long before you find a poem that brings you smack into the newness and strangeness of the living present, just as it did us' (from the Introduction) In The Zoo of the New, poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird have cast a fresh eye over more than five centuries of verse, from the English language and beyond. Above all, they have sought poetry that retains, in one way or another, a powerful timelessness: words with the thrilling capacity to make the time and ... Read more
'So open it anywhere, then anywhere, then anywhere again. We're sure it won't be long before you find a poem that brings you smack into the newness and strangeness of the living present, just as it did us' (from the Introduction) In The Zoo of the New, poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird have cast a fresh eye over more than five centuries of verse, from the English language and beyond. Above all, they have sought poetry that retains, in one way or another, a powerful timelessness: words with the thrilling capacity to make the time and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141392493
SKU
9780141392493
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About Nick Laird
Nick Laird was born in 1975 in Co. Tyrone. His poetry collections, published by Faber and Faber, are To a Fault (2005), On Purpose (2007) and Go Giants (2013). He has been awarded the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He is the author of two novels and lives between New York and ... Read more
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