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Fishing for Ghosts
Mike Harding
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Description for Fishing for Ghosts
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJP; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. .
In this new collection, Harding casts his poetic line to retrieve ghosts from the near and more distant past, his eyes and ears caught by fragments snagged in his visual and aural memory. A lifetime of listening, observing, thinking and reflecting produces poems that tell stories in his own voice; at times amused, bemused, angry or simply taken by the transient beauty of light in nature or a splash of colour in an urban environment. Harding is a natural storyteller and, like all true storytellers, his direct language engages listener and reader alike in the recognition that their own poems ... Read more
In this new collection, Harding casts his poetic line to retrieve ghosts from the near and more distant past, his eyes and ears caught by fragments snagged in his visual and aural memory. A lifetime of listening, observing, thinking and reflecting produces poems that tell stories in his own voice; at times amused, bemused, angry or simply taken by the transient beauty of light in nature or a splash of colour in an urban environment. Harding is a natural storyteller and, like all true storytellers, his direct language engages listener and reader alike in the recognition that their own poems ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910745854
SKU
V9781910745854
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99-15
About Mike Harding
Mike Harding was born in Crumpsall, Manchester, in 1944, into a working class Irish Catholic family. His writing has ranged from comedy to church architecture, from poetry to playwriting, from short stories to novels and, unsurprisingly, from fell-walking to a manual for fishermen on how to tie flies, with many of the books illustrated with his own photographs. Mike has ... Read more
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