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Out There
Jamie McKendrick
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Paperback. A collection of poems that starts from the far flung ('out there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mood of an observer on Uranus, or the perils of medieval travel, or listening for the speech of alien landscapes. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 88.
Jamie McKendrick's sixth collection starts from the far flung ('out there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mood of an observer on Uranus, or the perils of medieval travel, or listening for the speech of alien landscapes. Closer to home, the poems adopt an outsiderish stance as they ponder the business of non-belonging and draw up wry inventories of marginality - finding room for those whom history has forgotten (the inhabitants of a drowned valley in Wales) or equally for the outcasts of natural history ... Read more
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Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571289110
SKU
V9780571289110
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99-10
About Jamie McKendrick
Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955 and has published five books of poetry, including The Marble Fly, which won the Forward Prize, Ink Stone (2003) and most recently Crocodiles and Obelisks (2008). A selected poems, Sky Nails, was published by Faber in 2001. He has edited The Faber Book of 20th Century Italian Poems in 2004, and translated ... Read more
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