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Description for Peace Talks
hardcover. Depicting the ravages of modern warfare through reported speech, redacted documents, and vivid evocations of place, this book includes poems that are moving and measured, delicate and clear-eyed, and bear witness to the futility of war and the suffering of those left behind. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288.
The second half of Andrew Motion's new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These meditations on combat and the people caught up in it look back to conflicts of the past: to the 'war to end all wars'; to Rupert Brooke on his final journey; to Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart War Hospital; to Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his fatal shooting. But Motion also depicts the ravages of modern warfare through reported speech, redacted documents, and vivid evocations of place, ... Read more
The second half of Andrew Motion's new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These meditations on combat and the people caught up in it look back to conflicts of the past: to the 'war to end all wars'; to Rupert Brooke on his final journey; to Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart War Hospital; to Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his fatal shooting. But Motion also depicts the ravages of modern warfare through reported speech, redacted documents, and vivid evocations of place, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571325474
SKU
9780571325474
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Sir Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. His authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. His most recent collection of poems is The Customs House (2012). Andrew Motion was knighted for ... Read more
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