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Talking Dead

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Description for Talking Dead Paperback. Lifting the lid on the human condition in a heartfelt celebration of the act of being, whether in moments of love or mortality, sex or feasting, this book features a meditation on the space between life and death. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 88.

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize

Like Neil Rollinson’s earlier books, Talking Dead is a refreshment of the senses: lifting the lid on the human condition in a heartfelt celebration of the act of being, whether in moments of love or mortality, sex or feasting.

In the central sequence of the book – a meditation on the space between life and death – the dead speak of their final earthly moments with a liberating sense of fascination, and a luminous awe. Elsewhere we enjoy al fresco sex, astronomy via many pints in the Cat and Fiddle, and ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Random House UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224097291
SKU
V9780224097291
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Neil Rollinson
Neil Rollinson has published four collections: A Spillage of Mercury (1996), Spanish Fly (2001), Demolition (2007), and Talking Dead (2015). He won the National Poetry Competition in 1997, received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2005, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize for Talking Dead. He lives and works in Brighton.

Reviews for Talking Dead
A hugely accessible book of fundamentally human poems.
Jade Craddock
Nudge
A hugely accessible book of fundamentally human poems.
Jade Craddock
Nudge
Poems of extraordinary delicacy and transcendence.
Suzi Feay
Independent on Sunday
As lucid and direct as anything being written today… Every word is subordinated to its purpose: not the ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Talking Dead


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