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Farewell My Lovely
Polly Clark
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Description for Farewell My Lovely
Paperback. "Farewell My Lovely". Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 5. Weight in Grams: 110.
Polly Clark's haunting third collection is about leaving one's life and returning a stranger. In poems which are moving and often darkly comic, she explores the ways in which we try to hang on to what we were, and the ways in which we accept that everything we were certain of has gone forever. "Farewell My Lovely" is a book of transformation in many voices, from riffs on popular songs to a modern reworking of "Magnificat" or "Mary's Song". Polly Clark's vivid and unswerving gaze is applied with the same intensity to a dream of childhood, the vulnerability of a ... Read more
Polly Clark's haunting third collection is about leaving one's life and returning a stranger. In poems which are moving and often darkly comic, she explores the ways in which we try to hang on to what we were, and the ways in which we accept that everything we were certain of has gone forever. "Farewell My Lovely" is a book of transformation in many voices, from riffs on popular songs to a modern reworking of "Magnificat" or "Mary's Song". Polly Clark's vivid and unswerving gaze is applied with the same intensity to a dream of childhood, the vulnerability of a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248253
SKU
V9781852248253
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About Polly Clark
Polly Clark was born in Toronto in 1968 and brought up in Lancashire, Cumbria and the Borders of Scotland. She has worked variously as a zookeeper, a teacher of English in Hungary and in publishing at Oxford University Press. In 1997 she won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry. She has published three collections with Bloodaxe: her first collection, ... Read more
Reviews for Farewell My Lovely
Polly Clark has mastered the necessary art of saying two things at once. The surface of her poems maintains a bright, even brisk tone; it's full of fresh, unexpected phrasings. And yet the imagery points to a darker underbelly. It's a poetry in which our certainties are tested and exposed as brittle.
W.N. Herbert
PBS Bulletin
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W.N. Herbert
PBS Bulletin
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