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Exploring questions such as How does a blacksmith make fresh life from fire? Why does a creature that is half-man and half-hedgehog decide to take on the human race? and How do you ride a horse through time? this ambitious and prize-winning anthology reclaims the magical short story on behalf of the medium of poetry. Revealing a myriad of tales and charms, these poems take their imaginative energies from Romany life and lore, delving into lives lived intensely on the margins of reality and creating a language for poetry that is as entirely fresh as it is natural. Opening with a celebration of the friendship between the author and one of his late friends, this compilation enters and evokes strange new worlds, resurrecting the oral tradition of poetry as a form of magic, marvel, and making.
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David Morley is the cofounder of the writing program in the department of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick. He is a recipient of the Templar Poetry Prize, an Arts Council of England Writers Award, an Eric Gregory Award, the Raymond Williams Prize, and a Hawthornden Fellowship. He is the author of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, The Invisible Kings, and Scientific Papers. He has written for the Guardian and Poetry Review.
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“David Morley takes us on a voyage to the other half of his heritage. In a serial masterpiece of macaronic verse, he shows us a life intimate with our own . . . yet more deeply other than romantic fairytales or even authentic music from Spain and Eastern Europe had suggested it might be. He holds our world up to a language mostly kept secret up to now. . . . the refraction of the familiar is dizzying yet often moving.” —Les Murray, author, The Biplane Houses
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- PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1847770622
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