Small Hours (Paperback, Main)

Lachlan MacKinnon's fourth collection opens with a gathering of lyrics and descriptive poems: observing rites of passage (elegies, wedding poems), offering nuanced accounts of places and their patchwork afterlives (the Midlands, a Suffolk sketchbook), or meditations on historical figures introspectively at odds with their time (King Canute, Edward Thomas). This preoccupation with contingency - personal and historical - opens onto The Book of Emma: a long poem of fifty-four sections, written mostly in prose, which address a lost friend and contemporary in terms which seem laconically factual, but which draw their power from archaic conventions (Egyptian, Celtic) of talking to the dead.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2010
Authors:	Lachlan Mackinnon
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	96
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-25350-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-571-25350-4
Barcode:	9780571253500

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