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Local Honey
Robert Saxton
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Description for Local Honey
Paperback. A collection which juggles its opposites with panache - heart and intellect, melancholy and zest, derangement and perspicacity. Beginning with early stirrings of logical thought in a Palaeolithic cave, it ranges through times, places and viewpoints before homing close in the last poems to family predicaments that are personal in their particulars. Num Pages: 83 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 7. Weight in Grams: 116.
A dazzlingly various collection, "Local Honey" juggles its opposites with panache - heart and intellect, melancholy and zest, derangement and perspicacity. Beginning with early stirrings of logical thought in a Palaeolithic cave, the collection ranges through times, places and viewpoints before homing close in the last poems to recent family predicaments that are personal in their particulars, universal in their resonance. En route, four sections of sonnets and sestinas, blues and ballad rhythms transport us through themes and places: mind and love and nonsense - the moon - Greece, Italy, Morocco, Iceland, the haunted Elysian forest of memory. The book ... Read more
A dazzlingly various collection, "Local Honey" juggles its opposites with panache - heart and intellect, melancholy and zest, derangement and perspicacity. Beginning with early stirrings of logical thought in a Palaeolithic cave, the collection ranges through times, places and viewpoints before homing close in the last poems to recent family predicaments that are personal in their particulars, universal in their resonance. En route, four sections of sonnets and sestinas, blues and ballad rhythms transport us through themes and places: mind and love and nonsense - the moon - Greece, Italy, Morocco, Iceland, the haunted Elysian forest of memory. The book ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
83
Condition
New
Number of Pages
83
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781903039908
SKU
V9781903039908
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About Robert Saxton
Robert Saxton was born in Nottingham 1952. Has a first class degree in English from Magdalen College, Oxford. He lives in London, and is currently the editorial director of an illustrated book publishing company. His first collection of poetry, The Promise Clinic, was published by Enitharmon in 1994. He is also represented in Faber's Poetry Introduction 7 and Carcanet's Oxford ... Read more
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