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Ink Stone
Jamie McKendrick
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Description for Ink Stone
Paperback. These poems explore the grain, or "tooth" of the natural world with unusual and discomforting detail at the same time as they chart the medium they work in - not only what the eye sees, but the eye itself: its structure and structurings. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 197 x 8. Weight in Grams: 94.
The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. As one expert writes, 'the better the stone, the smaller and more consistent the particles will be and the denser the ink.' These new poems by Jamie McKendrick have a remarkable density of ink. They explore the grain, or 'tooth', of the natural world with unusual and discomforting detail at the same time as they chart the medium they work in - not only what the eye sees, but the eye itself: its structure and structurings. These poems ... Read more
The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. As one expert writes, 'the better the stone, the smaller and more consistent the particles will be and the denser the ink.' These new poems by Jamie McKendrick have a remarkable density of ink. They explore the grain, or 'tooth', of the natural world with unusual and discomforting detail at the same time as they chart the medium they work in - not only what the eye sees, but the eye itself: its structure and structurings. These poems ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571215324
SKU
V9780571215324
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Ref
99-21
About Jamie McKendrick
Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955. He is author of seven collections of poetry and has won the Forward Prize for Best Collection (The Marble Fly, 1997), the Hawthornden Prize (Out There, 2012) and the Cholmondeley Award (2019). He has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. His translations ... Read more
Reviews for Ink Stone
"Acclaim for his previous collection, The Marble Fly (1997): 'Consistently excellent... where McKendrick scores is in his expert salvaging of beauty from squalor, wit from adversity, delicacy from grossness.' Michael Hofmann