Drysalter

Roberts, M.S.

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ISBN 10: 0224093592 ISBN 13: 9780224093590

Published by Jonathan Cape, 2013

Language: English

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Title

Drysalter

Publisher

Jonathan Cape

Publication Date

2013

Language

English

ISBN 10

0224093592

ISBN 13

9780224093590

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st edition.

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V.g.

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Michael Symmons Roberts sixth - and most ambitious collection to date - takes its name from the ancient trade in powders chemicals salts and dyes paints and cures These poems offer a similarly potent and sensory multiplicity unified through the formal constraint of 150 poems of 15 lines Like the medieval psalters echoed in its title this collection contains both the sacred and profane

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Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1963. He has published six collections of poetry and received a number of accolades including the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Award and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. As a librettist, his work has been performed in concert halls and opera houses around the world. An award-winning broadcaster and dramatist, he has published two novels, and is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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