Winner of the 2012 Polari Prize A Book of the Year for The
Independent and The Poetry School Holiday Read in The Observer The
Frost Fairs is a compassionate book with a global and historical
scope, tackling science and city life from a range of surreal yet
poignant angles. It explores love in many forms, from modern
transatlantic relationships to hidden gay and cross-gendered lives
from the past. The pieces travel from ancient Alexandria to
twenty-first century bars and council estates, behind everything
the vastness of the sea and sky. The array of voices here is
striking: taxi drivers report their most outlandish fares and
hermaphrodite statues flirt with observers; abandoned lovers watch
frost fairs melting on the Thames and drag queens revel in the
freedoms afforded by the Blitz. Formally deft and carefully
crafted, this diverse range of poems uses language that is always
musical and alive. Surprise and the uncanny are cherished as ways
of returning to us the strange leaps and enduring power of our
deepest yearnings. In this collection, longing and losing condition
all we see and hear, making the impossible suddenly plausible.
Whether exploring Brighton seascapes or questions of empire, there
is always in McCullough's writing an openness to seeing the world
from an alternative point of view. At once bold and haunting, The
Frost Fairs opens the door to a new country in the reader's
imagination in its exploration of the possibilities of the human
heart.
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