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14%OFFKona Macphee - What Long Miles - 9781852249656 - V9781852249656
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What Long Miles

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Description for What Long Miles Paperback. Third collection by winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 2011. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 5. Weight in Grams: 110. 64 pages. Third collection by winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 2011. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 5. Weight: 110.
Kona Macphee's What Long Miles is a characteristically eclectic collection from an ever-inventive writer, the winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for her previous collection, Perfect Blue. The poems range widely - nature and culture, body and psyche, the urban and the rural, the everyday and the revelatory - driven by a poetic sensibility both captivated by nuance and ever in search of essence. Woven throughout the collection's diversity of styles and subjects is the theme of human loneliness, a hurt that the poems touch on again and again, and for which the poet finds no easy remedy. Whether ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249656
SKU
V9781852249656
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99-25

About Kona Macphee
Kona Macphee was born in London and grew up in Australia, where she worked as a waitress, shop assistant and apprentice motorbike mechanic. She studied musical composition at the Sydney Conservatorium, violin at the University of Sydney, and computer science and robotics at Monash University, later taking an M.Sc. at Cambridge as a Commonwealth Scholar. She received an Eric Gregory ... Read more

Reviews for What Long Miles
'Her compassion, seriousness and technical accomplishment were all evident over a wide range of subjects and forms. She can also describe moments of vulnerability directly and with courage. It was a book that we found ourselves returning to. What impressed us most of all was the way that Macphee's work combined clarity and depth with a surprising and sometimes unsettling ... Read more

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