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Blizzard
M. Francis
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Description for Blizzard
Paperback. Features poems that range from the light-hearted to the unsettling, from lyrical and witty evocations of landscape and domestic life to narratives of apocalypse and surreal fantasy. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 108.
Winner of the Southern Arts Prize and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The poems in Matthew Francis's first collection range from the light-hearted to the unsettling, from lyrical and witty evocations of landscape and domestic life to narratives of apocalypse and surreal fantasy. Night and winter provide the dominant metaphors, but, from this material, Francis, whose technical adroitness and flair for storytelling are equally remarkable, conjures up a substantial imaginative world in which it is possible to live with a renewed sense of freedom. Dark, dangerous and exhilarating, Blizzard reveals ... Read more
Winner of the Southern Arts Prize and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The poems in Matthew Francis's first collection range from the light-hearted to the unsettling, from lyrical and witty evocations of landscape and domestic life to narratives of apocalypse and surreal fantasy. Night and winter provide the dominant metaphors, but, from this material, Francis, whose technical adroitness and flair for storytelling are equally remarkable, conjures up a substantial imaginative world in which it is possible to live with a renewed sense of freedom. Dark, dangerous and exhilarating, Blizzard reveals ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571331147
SKU
V9780571331147
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99-10
About M. Francis
Matthew Francis is the author of four Faber collections, most recently Muscovy (2013). He has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and in 2004 was chosen as one of the Next Generation poets. He has also edited W. S. Graham's New Collected Poems, and published a collection of short stories and two novels, the second of which, The Book ... Read more
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