Summary
A stunning collection about the rites and rituals of cooking by one of Britain’s best new poets.
Human Work was written while cooking. It is the narrative of a voice in domesticity, at the alchemical heart of home - the hearth, or Hestia - where the kitchen is a stage for acts of eating and uttering; for the ebb and flow to the human mouth. The poems were written ‘live’ among pots and pans, beside chopping boards, between plates, bowls, knives, forks, spoons, and servings. Th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224099844 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224099841 |
| Author: | Sean Borodale |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2015 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 8mm |
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Critics Review
If you love cooking, and words…this book, given half a chance, will soon be engraved on your heart.
If you love cooking, and words…this book, given half a chance, will soon be engraved on your heart. – Rachel Cooke * Observer *
This is a stunning collection of poems about the rites, rituals and adventures of cooking. Just like the best dishes, everything combines wonderfully to produce subtle tastes and thoughts which linger in the mind after the book has been closed. A delicious treat. * Bath Chronicle *
Wonderful, original and sustaining poems. – Kate Kellaway * Observer *
He is a marvellous poet, a man who knows his artichokes. – Kate Kellaway * Observer *
About The Author
Sean Borodale
Sean Borodale is a poet and artist born in London. His first collection of poetry, Bee Journal, was shortlisted for the 2012 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award, and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He has also authored the collections Human Work, Asylum, and Inmates. In 2014, he was selected as one of twenty Next Generation Poets.
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