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Small Hours

Lachlan MacKinnon author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:21st Jan '10

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Lachlan MacKinnon's fourth collection opens with a gathering of lyrics and descriptive poems: observing rites of passage (elegies, wedding poems), offering nuanced accounts of places and their patchwork afterlives (the Midlands, a Suffolk sketchbook), or meditations on historical figures introspectively at odds with their time (King Canute, Edward Thomas). This preoccupation with contingency - personal and historical - opens onto The Book of Emma: a long poem of fifty-four sections, written mostly in prose, which address a lost friend and contemporary in terms which seem laconically factual, but which draw their power from archaic conventions (Egyptian, Celtic) of talking to the dead.

  • Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection 2010

ISBN: 9780571253500

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 6mm

Weight: 122g

96 pages

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