Birds With A Broken Wing
$23.47
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2007
Summary
Adam Thorpe’s fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief - a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturnal path set against the ‘insomniac’ motorway; industrialised apples against wrinkled windfalls - his poems argue for bewilderment and ‘the slight bruise of doubt’.
Whether walking an abandoned road or considering a friend’s suicide, his poems remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed re…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224079440 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224079441 |
| Author: | Adam Thorpe |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2007 |
| Weight: | 110g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 8mm |
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[He] writes like a man in love with language, with the sheer possibilities of words. His work is musical, brimming with slant rhyme and assonance, and also subtle in its effects
[He] writes like a man in love with language, with the sheer possibilities of words. His work is musical, brimming with slant rhyme and assonance, and also subtle in its effects – Jane Yeh * Poetry Review *The essential element about Thorpe the poet is that he is unusual among many contemporaries for possessing a superbly honed ear for the cadences of language and speech – David Morley * Guardian *Thorpe’s poems are finely scored for the voice, but they go beyond the recognisable into the mystical – Peter Porter * Observer *A writer with exceptional gifts – Peter Kemp * Sunday Times *There are never going to be many poets in any generation who leave you strapped for superlatives; excitingly, Thorpe is one of them – Robert Potts * Literary Review *
About The Author
Adam Thorpe
Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992, and he has published two books of stories, six poetry collections, and nine further novels, most recently Flight (2012).
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