The Cinder Path : First printing

Motion, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0571244920 / ISBN 13: 9780571244928

Published by Faber & Faber, London, United Kingdom, 2009

About this Item

True first British printing (full print run includes '1'). With original unclipped jacket (£12.99). Jacket has just very minor creasing to edges in a couple of places (nothing much). Blue boards are fine with no faults. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. No spine lean. No other faults. Possibly an unread copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cinder Path : First printing
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571244920
• ISBN 13: 9780571244928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since "Public Property" in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and in the world around them, as soldiers, lovers, artists, writers and citizens. The conversational tone and formal variety of these poems both shapes and diversifies their response to loss and its inevitabilities. Here are poems about the last surviving veteran of the trenches; poems which work with found materials drawn from the contiguous worlds of prose; poems which elicit the parallel lives glimpsed in paintings, or the other lives of birds, trees and weather (as of an ordinariness just out of reach).An unemphatic evenness of handling, in the detailing of ordinary destinies, alternates with capacious panoramas of longing and summation, and the collection ends with a remarkable group of directly autobiographical poems about the life and times of the poet's father.

About the Author

Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published four celebrated biographies. His group study The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Andrew Motion's novella The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) was described as 'amazingly clever' by the Irish Times and praised for 'brilliant and almost hallucinatory vividness' by the Sunday Telegraph. His memoir, In the Blood (2006), was described as 'the most moving and exquisitely written account of childhood loss I have ever read' in the Independent on Sunday.