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Ogres Wife
Anthony Howell
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Description for Ogres Wife
Paperback. A collection of poems by Anthony Howell. It chronicles the odyssey of one sentenced to commute across London, while the title poem extends a theme of dubious empathy. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 92.
Anthony Howell's first collection for several years moves in unusual directions. Guilt and society's victimization of those it punishes are among its subjects: it begins with poems concerned with the harm caused by anorexia and moves on to investigate the situation of offenders held in units for 'vulnerable' prisoners. The collection includes two longer poems: "Ode to a Routine" chronicles the odyssey of one sentenced to commute across London, while the title poem extends a theme of dubious empathy explored by Browning in "My Last Duchess". As always Anthony Howell's poems are cool, intelligent, entertaining and simply different from anything ... Read more
Anthony Howell's first collection for several years moves in unusual directions. Guilt and society's victimization of those it punishes are among its subjects: it begins with poems concerned with the harm caused by anorexia and moves on to investigate the situation of offenders held in units for 'vulnerable' prisoners. The collection includes two longer poems: "Ode to a Routine" chronicles the odyssey of one sentenced to commute across London, while the title poem extends a theme of dubious empathy explored by Browning in "My Last Duchess". As always Anthony Howell's poems are cool, intelligent, entertaining and simply different from anything ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
56
Condition
New
Number of Pages
56
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856464225
SKU
V9780856464225
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About Anthony Howell
Anthony Howell, born in 1945, lives in London. He has published several collections of poems, the most recent being 'Selected Poems' and 'Dancers in Daylight', and two novels. During 2002-7 he taught creative writing in prisons.
Reviews for Ogres Wife
'...so much good poetry that one is astonished that Howell's name is not better known' - John Greening, Poetry Review