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The Man in the White Suit
Nick Drake
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Description for The Man in the White Suit
Paperback.
An exiled poet in an English seaside asylum... A winter night spent in the spooky penthouse suite of Ceausescu's vanished daughter... A scientist trying to calculate the heart's square root... All these figure in The Man in the White Suit, Nick Drake's first full-length collection, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. It portrays and celebrates a richly varied cast of characters whose secrets and histories are the central thread of the book, ranging from life studies of those caught out by exile from central Europe or caught up in the strange ... Read more
An exiled poet in an English seaside asylum... A winter night spent in the spooky penthouse suite of Ceausescu's vanished daughter... A scientist trying to calculate the heart's square root... All these figure in The Man in the White Suit, Nick Drake's first full-length collection, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. It portrays and celebrates a richly varied cast of characters whose secrets and histories are the central thread of the book, ranging from life studies of those caught out by exile from central Europe or caught up in the strange ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852244880
SKU
9781852244880
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About Nick Drake
Nick Drake was born in 1961. He lives and works in London. His first book-length collection, The Man in the White Suit (Bloodaxe Books, 1999), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1999, and was selected for the Next Generation Poets promotion in 2004. From The Word Go was published by Bloodaxe ... Read more
Reviews for The Man in the White Suit
Nick Drake's debut collection is subtle, funny and tremendously moving. He has an eye for the small detail as well as the big picture. These poems brilliantly evoke time and place... This is a collection that will resonate long after you have finished reading it.
Jackie Kay Nick Drake's first collection is impressively rich in character and narrative, bringing ... Read more
Jackie Kay Nick Drake's first collection is impressively rich in character and narrative, bringing ... Read more