Drawn from thirty years of work, this selection, made by the poet
himself, gathers from the best of Jamie McKendrick's six acclaimed
collections, including some translations, from 1991's debut The
Sirocco Room to Out There (2012, and winner of the Hawthornden
Prize) by way of The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize
for Best Collection, and Ink Stone, shortlisted for both the T. S.
Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2003. Sky Nails, his
selected poems, was published by Faber in 2000, and selections of
his poems have been translated and published in Holland and in
Italy. Throughout, McKendrick has been concerned with the charting
of space, of the distances between homeland and edgeland, the
far-flung and the near-at-hand, the past and present, the familiar
and the strange in poems which cast a sharp eye over their subject
matter and return with wry, unsettling observations. There is
remembrance, here, and salvage, a bringing to light of that which
is obscured or lost, not only the ink stones in Chinese riverbeds,
but extinct species, spacecraft and flooded houses, as well as
historical figures, including a 10th-century physicist from Basra,
Irish activist Roger Casement, and artists Gaudi, Hoech and
Piranesi.
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