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Bugs (Oxford Poets)
Antony Dunn
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Description for Bugs (Oxford Poets)
Paperback. Now heartening, now heartbroken, this title turns a magnifying glass on the world to reveal its fascinating strangeness. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 4. Weight in Grams: 92.
Both heartening and heartbreaking, this collection of poems tells the stories of life of all sizesfrom microscopic parasitic worms to the lives of massive planets. Full of characters facing the guilt and terror of life, this examination embraces literary influences from all over the world, learning from the cultural difficulties and legacies left behind.Revealing the far-reaching effects of everyday occurrences, this remarkable compilation follows people as they go about their lives and find themselves caught up in astounding public and private events."
Both heartening and heartbreaking, this collection of poems tells the stories of life of all sizesfrom microscopic parasitic worms to the lives of massive planets. Full of characters facing the guilt and terror of life, this examination embraces literary influences from all over the world, learning from the cultural difficulties and legacies left behind.Revealing the far-reaching effects of everyday occurrences, this remarkable compilation follows people as they go about their lives and find themselves caught up in astounding public and private events."
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781903039953
SKU
V9781903039953
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-49
About Antony Dunn
Antony Dunn was born in 1973. He won the Newdigate Prize in 1995 and received a Society of Authors' Eric Gregory Award in 2000. He has published two previous collections of poems, Pilots and Navigators (OxfordPoets 1998) and Flying Fish (Carcanet / OxfordPoets 2002). He has worked on a number of translation projects with poets from Holland, Hungary, China and ... Read more
Reviews for Bugs (Oxford Poets)
"an alert, intelligent book... poems which, Brodsky-like, take the reader somewhere new, jinking round the corners of places we think we know into imagined elsewheres... there's much to admire Poetry Wales"