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Halfway House
Neil Powell
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Description for Halfway House
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 113.
Houses and gardens, remembered or imagined, dominate Neil Powell's sixth Carcanet collection. They range from a recollection of his grandmother's home in Chelsea to an abandoned, fog-shrouded building on the East Anglian coast; from a magical childhood garden in the Surrey hills to the composer Gerald Finzi's orchard in Hampshire. There is a sequence of sonnets set in the Waveney valley and a series of varied epigrams arranged as an alphabetical catalogue raisonne. As so often in Neil Powell's work, the North Sea laps at the edges of poems lit by the great Suffolk sky. Friends are recalled, birthdays celebrated, ... Read more
Houses and gardens, remembered or imagined, dominate Neil Powell's sixth Carcanet collection. They range from a recollection of his grandmother's home in Chelsea to an abandoned, fog-shrouded building on the East Anglian coast; from a magical childhood garden in the Surrey hills to the composer Gerald Finzi's orchard in Hampshire. There is a sequence of sonnets set in the Waveney valley and a series of varied epigrams arranged as an alphabetical catalogue raisonne. As so often in Neil Powell's work, the North Sea laps at the edges of poems lit by the great Suffolk sky. Friends are recalled, birthdays celebrated, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857546590
SKU
V9781857546590
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Ref
99-40
About Neil Powell
NEIL POWELL, born in London in 1948, has taught English, owned a bookshop and, since 1990, been a full-time author and editor. He lives in Suffolk. His Carcanet books include five collections of poetry, including a Selected Poems (1998), two prose books and The Language of Jazz. George Crabbe: an English Life, is published by Pimlico in March 2004.
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