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17%OFFAdam Thorpe - Birds with a Broken Wing - 9780224079440 - V9780224079440
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Birds with a Broken Wing

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Description for Birds with a Broken Wing Paperback. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief, this book presents poems that argue for bewilderment and 'the slight bruise of doubt'. It features poems that remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history and with ourselves; whether walking an abandoned road, or considering a friend's suicide. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 136 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.

Adam Thorpe's fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief - a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturnal path set against the 'insomniac' motorway; industrialised apples against wrinkled windfalls - his poems argue for bewilderment and 'the slight bruise of doubt'.

Whether walking an abandoned road or considering a friend's suicide, his poems remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history, with ourselves.

There are, however, all the vestiges of connective tissue - memories and mementoes, sudden, miraculous ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224079440
SKU
V9780224079440
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99-14

About Adam Thorpe
Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992, and he has published two books of stories, six poetry collections, and nine further novels, most recently Flight (2012). www.adamthorpe.net

Reviews for Birds with a Broken Wing
[He] writes like a man in love with language, with the sheer possibilities of words. His work is musical, brimming with slant rhyme and assonance, and also subtle in its effects
Jane Yeh
Poetry Review
The essential element about Thorpe the poet is that he is unusual among many contemporaries for possessing a superbly honed ear for ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Birds with a Broken Wing


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