Take us the Little Foxes (Paperback)

Miles Burrows

ISBN 10: 1800171390 / ISBN 13: 9781800171398

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester, 2021

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Paperback. An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021The poetry of Miles Burrows was discovered in 1966 when Tom Maschler, already an editor at Cape, heard him give a public reading in London. Cape published him. After that, Burrows continued his life in many walks, most of them medical. Having studied Greats at Oxford, he was determined to become an intellectual and learned to smoke black Russian cigarettes, reviewing occasionally for the New Statesman. He worked as a GP and then as a psychiatrist. He was briefly a trawlerman, then a doctor in the New Guinea Highlands, in the American Hospital for Hmong tribe refugees on the Thai-Laos border, in a Catholic mission Hospital in Eastern Taiwan, in the Middle East and in Suffolk.This Collected Poems is a rich harvest from the decades between 1966 and 2021. The poems are primarily conversational. The poet is keen to get into exclusive places he has no right to be clubs, social strata, religions. Much of the adventure, the disrupted narrative, has to do with being out of place. Its long narratives work as a trawlerman in Iceland, a traditional funeral in Taiwan open on worlds that are made vertiginously real. A Collected Poems that at turns cuts and stumbles through the self-contradictions, self-deceptions, and absurdities of everyday life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Take us the Little Foxes (Paperback)
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800171390
• ISBN 13: 9781800171398
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A rich harvest of poetry from a life lived in many walks. This Collected Poems by Miles Burrows spans decades, from 1966 to 2021, offering a diverse range of styles and subjects. Burrows' poems are conversational, inviting readers into exclusive spaces and social strata, often exploring the feeling of being out of place. He blends personal experiences with cultural observations, creating a unique perspective on the human condition.

From his early work discovered by Tom Maschler to his later reflections on medicine, travel, and intellectual pursuits, Burrows' poetry is both humorous and poignant. His long narratives, such as his time as a trawlerman in Iceland and a funeral in Taiwan, vividly depict worlds made real through his unique lens. This collection is for readers who appreciate contemporary poetry that is both thought-provoking and deeply personal.

About the Author

Miles Burrows studied at Charterhouse and Wadham College Oxford. He read Russian in National Service, then Classics and Medicine. He worked as travel and fiction reviewer at the New Statesman and his poems appeared on radio and television. His work has been anthologised in British Poetrysince 1945 (Penguin: ed. Lucie-Smith) and in Best Poems of the Year 2012 (Forward). He is a regular contributor to TLS, Poetry Review, and PN Review. He has worked as a doctor in New Guinea, Thailand, and Haverhill. His first Carcanet collection, Waiting for the Nightingale, was published in 2017.