The Martian's Regress
$28.05
- Paperback
88 pages
- Release Date
5 March 2020
Summary
The new poetry collection from the winner of the Costa Poetry Award
SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2020
From the winner of the Costa Poetry Award
A lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs, its continued abuse of the environment that sustains it. During this journey back to the now-broken and long-abandoned mother planet, the martian begins to consider his own uncertain origins,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787332140 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787332144 |
| Author: | J.O. Morgan |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 88 |
| Release Date: | 5 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 108g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 8mm |
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Critics Review
A rippling, impeccable lyricism that’s delicious to read aloud, and a down-to-earth, deadpan violence that recalls Simon Armitage… If you haven’t discovered Morgan, this weird, unsettling trip is the perfect introduction. – Tristram Fane Saunders * Daily Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month *
Startling… What it does exceptionally well is make clear what ecological catastrophe might feel like as well as look like… What a joy to read and re-read and re-read. – Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *
[J. O. Morgan] has quietly established himself as a gifted writer of the long poem… The Martian’s Regress is an imaginative leap… In portraying the variously hopeful, hopeless, comic and bleak ways of apparent aliens, Morgan brings us closer to ourselves. – Ben Wilkinson * Guardian *
The Martian’s Regress is a powerful long poem… An interesting and always accessible variation on a dystopian theme… The story remains taut and reverberates…[and] draws elements of humour even from dark places. * Bookmunch *
About The Author
J.O. Morgan
J. O. Morgan is a Scottish author. His 2018 work Assurances, looking at the RAF’s early involvement with maintaining the nuclear deterrent, won that year’s Costa Poetry Award. He has been twice shortlisted for both the Forward and the T. S. Eliot Prize. Appliance is his second novel.
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