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A quiet but fast-changing corner of Scotland is tenderly documented in this collection that sets family, lovers, and geographical and dynastic time against the speed of modernity. The theme of a modern territory superimposed onto a much older one is developed as the poetry elegizes the ancient landscape of Renfrewshire. The collection is also sensitive to the nuances of family relationships and has an uncanny evocation of a child’s developing perspective of friends, siblings, and parents. Ultimately, this compilation reclaims suburbia as a place of unexpected poetry and even beauty.
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Richard Price is head of the Modern British Collections at the British Library in London. He is the founder of the magazines Gairfish and Southfields and cofounder of Vennel Press.
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"The play of these poems is moving and yet linguistically challenging. The sense of innocent nursery rhyme and the hard-ended reality of the situation create a unique poetry—even a new modernism. Price has given late modernism an injection of humanity it has long required." —John Kinsella, Manhattan Review, on Lucky Day
"Price's humane intelligence manifests itself in deceptively simple and subtly musical forms of address. Readers who allow themselves the pleasure will not be disappointed." —The Guardian
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- PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1857549201
- ISBN 13 9781857549201
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages96
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