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Slower
Andrew McNeillie
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Description for Slower
Paperback. Presents a collection that meditates on personal and natural history, nation states and mental states, violence, religion and poetry. Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 140.
"Slower", Andrew McNeillie's third collection, meditates on personal and natural history, nation states and mental states, violence, religion and poetry. It treats too of personal bereavement, and of love and marriage. The poem sequences at its core make connections between places, times and events, and meditate on continuities. The twenty-eight 'Glyn Dwr Sonnets' explore parallels between the campaigns of the Welsh hero and those of Osama Bin Laden, offering wry reflections on ideas of nation and belonging, and on the practice of writing poems. 'A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Dog' also plays to a Welsh tune, offering ... Read more
"Slower", Andrew McNeillie's third collection, meditates on personal and natural history, nation states and mental states, violence, religion and poetry. It treats too of personal bereavement, and of love and marriage. The poem sequences at its core make connections between places, times and events, and meditate on continuities. The twenty-eight 'Glyn Dwr Sonnets' explore parallels between the campaigns of the Welsh hero and those of Osama Bin Laden, offering wry reflections on ideas of nation and belonging, and on the practice of writing poems. 'A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Dog' also plays to a Welsh tune, offering ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857548280
SKU
V9781857548280
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Ref
99-50
About Andrew McNeillie
ANDREW McNEILLIE is the Literature Editor at Oxford University Press. His collection Nevermore (2000), in the Oxford Poets series from Carcanet, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A second collection, Now, Then, was published in 2002 by OxfordPoets/Carcanet.
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