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16%OFFRoy McFarlane - Beginning with Your Last Breath - 9781911027089 - V9781911027089
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Beginning with Your Last Breath

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Description for Beginning with Your Last Breath Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 144.

This debut collection of poems by former Birmingham Poet Laureate Roy McFarlane explores love, loss, adoption and identity in powerful, precise and emotionally-charged poetry. From bereavement comes forth a life story in poems; the journey of sons, friends, lovers and parents, and all the moments of growing-up, discovery, falling in and out of love and learning to say goodbye that come along the way.

Themes of place, identity, history, and race interweave personal narratives, with and poems that touch on everything from the ‘Tebbitt Test’ and Marvin Gaye to the Black Country, that 'place just off the M6'. Distinct and memorable, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Nine Arches Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
144g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Rugby, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911027089
SKU
V9781911027089
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About Roy McFarlane
Roy McFarlane is a Poet, Playwright and former Youth & Community Worker born in Birmingham of Jamaican parentage spending most of his years living in Wolverhampton and the Black Country, now residing in Brighton. Roy is Canal Laureate for Britain, and Birmingham & Midlands Institute Poet in Residence, as well as being the former Birmingham Poet Laureate. From Amsterdam to ... Read more

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