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14%OFFFiona Sampson - Rough Music - 9781847770455 - V9781847770455
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Rough Music

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Description for Rough Music Paperback. 'Rough music' is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This book features disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore themes of violence, loss and belonging. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 6. Weight in Grams: 92.
'Rough music' is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This is a book full of disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore themes of violence, loss and belonging. Fiona Sampson's characteristic lyric intensity deftly fuses metaphysics and politics with the vernacular of daily life.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770455
SKU
V9781847770455
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-35

About Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampson has published fourteen books - including poetry, philosophy of language and studies of writing process - of which the most recent are The Distance Between Us (Seren, 2005) and Writing: Self and Reflexivity (with Celia Hunt; Macmillan, 2005). She has been widely translated, with eight books in translation including Patuvachki Dnevnik (Travel Diary), awarded the Zlaten Prsten (Macedonia). ... Read more

Reviews for Rough Music
From reviews of Common Prayer: Urgent, acrobatically alert poems alternate with the comparative stillness of a series of love sonnets. Here, too, the imagination is always at work, demonstrating that curiosity is a form of passion. - Sean O'Brien, The Sunday Times That she is also a very fine poet indeed seems almost impertinent of her, but that ... Read more

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