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Title: Wing
Author: Francis, Matthew
ISBN: 9780571358625
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2021
Binding: Quality
Language: English
Condition: New
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Poetry 1286498
Publisher Description:
Adventurous and illuminating, Matthew Francis's poetry collection is full of flight, air and possibility. Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the 'witchy-beetle, forkin-robin' of dialect. His love of history, embodied in his acclaimed Mandeville and The Mabinogi, gives rise to a sequence based on Robert Hooke's microscopic observations. There are tributes to the poets Basho, Dafydd ap Gwilym and W. S. Graham, to fireworks, apple varieties, and hot toddies. And, in a moving elegy for a friend killed in a parachute accident, Francis shows us a vertiginous vision of a world where even the dead 'sleep on the wing'.
Author: Francis, Matthew
ISBN: 9780571358625
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2021
Binding: Quality
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher
Poetry 1286498
Publisher Description:
Adventurous and illuminating, Matthew Francis's poetry collection is full of flight, air and possibility. Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the 'witchy-beetle, forkin-robin' of dialect. His love of history, embodied in his acclaimed Mandeville and The Mabinogi, gives rise to a sequence based on Robert Hooke's microscopic observations. There are tributes to the poets Basho, Dafydd ap Gwilym and W. S. Graham, to fireworks, apple varieties, and hot toddies. And, in a moving elegy for a friend killed in a parachute accident, Francis shows us a vertiginous vision of a world where even the dead 'sleep on the wing'.
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