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In Mortal Memory
Andrew McNeillie
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Description for In Mortal Memory
Paperback. A collection of lyric poems, celebratory if often melancholy, both elegiac and ironic. Num Pages: 69 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 100.
"In Mortal Memory" is a collection of lyric poems, celebratory if often melancholy, both elegiac and ironic. Affirming that life is 'all becoming' McNeillie mourns what that means in terms of loss and sorrow at time passing. The sea is a powerful presence, its meaning drawn both from the northern landscapes in which McNeillie's work is rooted, and from the work of French poets, from Baudelaire and Hugo to Rimbaud and Corbiere. The poems pitch up and down across formalities, against the idea of purity, while sustaining a rhyming, singing line.
"In Mortal Memory" is a collection of lyric poems, celebratory if often melancholy, both elegiac and ironic. Affirming that life is 'all becoming' McNeillie mourns what that means in terms of loss and sorrow at time passing. The sea is a powerful presence, its meaning drawn both from the northern landscapes in which McNeillie's work is rooted, and from the work of French poets, from Baudelaire and Hugo to Rimbaud and Corbiere. The poems pitch up and down across formalities, against the idea of purity, while sustaining a rhyming, singing line.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
69
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770844
SKU
V9781847770844
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About Andrew McNeillie
ANDREW McNEILLIE was born in North Wales in 1946 and read English at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the Literature Editor at Oxford University Press; in 2002 he established the Clutag Press to publish poetry. His collection of poems Nevermore (2000), in Carcanet's Oxford Poets series, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His collection Now, Then ... Read more
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