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Later, Icarus

Elizabeth McManus author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Crumps Barn Studio

Published:29th Oct '24

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Later, Icarus cover

'Icarus swam ashore
Bedraggled, humiliated'

Myths and legends capture the fragility and intensity of human experience - but there are gaps between the stories people hold to be true and how it feels to witness these moments or live them.

Thoroughly relatable, Later, Icarus uncovers what happens beyond the headlines, in the aftermath.

All at once evoking a classical epilogue and a beautifully personal story of the everyday, these are the voices of ordinary people in poetry - the legends and the forgotten - as they reveal their own truths, and experience what comes next

'Now appears a vast, exquisite silence.
From this peaceful place
The view is long
The silence vibrates'
 
What readers are saying:
 
‘Quietly marvellous’ – Five stars
  
‘This astonishing first collection from poet and artist Elizabeth McManus delights with its meld of classical legend and intense personal experience. I loved its playfulness at the edges of familiar tales, its range of poetic form, its intensity of feeling’ – Five stars

‘Quietly marvellous’ – Five stars
  
‘This astonishing first collection from poet and artist Elizabeth McManus delights with its meld of classical legend and intense personal experience. I loved its playfulness at the edges of familiar tales, its range of poetic form, its intensity of feeling’ – Five stars

ISBN: 9781915067579

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 6mm

Weight: unknown

64 pages