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CABARET MCGONAGALL
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| By: |
W. N. Herbert |
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Paperback |
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£7.95 |
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£5.80 |
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£2.15 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1852243538 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781852243531 |
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| Publisher: |
BLOODAXE BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 1996 |
| Pages: |
128 |
| Description: |
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection |
| Synopsis: |
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Come to the Cabaret - on tour somewhat erratically in the North. Sample its impassioned ballads, phantasmata, and despairing satires. The cast includes a suicidal Pict from Galloway, Morayshire's unsavoury Third Corbie, and the demented Edinburgh surgeon, Scrapie Powrie. Appearing now at the House of Fear, King Shit-Click's Palace and Bede's World. In this new collection from W.N. Herbert, the verse veers from the Whitmanic to Dunbar-like flytings, and the language lurches from Scots to English through all half-way houses. The result is a big bad anxious trip through the Information Age with one of the most various of contemporary poets. W.N. Herbert is a highly versatile poet who writes both in Scots and English. Sean O'Brien has called him 'outstanding - a poet whom nothing - including what he terms "the Anchises of the Scots Style Sheet" - will intimidate'. For Douglas Dunn, his was 'the best writing in Scots - thoughtful, studied, clever - I've seen in years'.Jamie McKendrick admired his 'vibrant' poetry, his 'ear for the sensuous music of Scots' and his 'ability to effect sudden shifts of scale that bring the human and the cosmic face to face'. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize 1996 |
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