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Title: THE DROWNED BOOK
PICADOR CLASSIC
By: Sean O'Brien, Helen Dunmore
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £9.99


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ISBN 10: 1447294041
ISBN 13: 9781447294047
Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 18 June, 2015
Series: Picador Classic 27
Description: Picador's second collection from one of the finest English poets of the last fifty years
Synopsis: With an introduction by Helen DunmoreCome for a walk down the river road,For though you're all a long time deadThe waters part to let us passThe way we'd go on summer nightsIn the times we were childrenAnd thought we were lovers. The Drowned Book is a work of memory, commemoration and loss, dominated by elegies for those the author has loved and admired. Sean O'Brien's exquisite collection is powerfully affecting, sad and often deeply funny; but it is also a dramatically compelling book - disquieting, even - and full of warnings. As the book unfolds, O'Brien's verse occupies an increasingly dark, subterranean territory - where the waters are rising, threatening to overwhelm and ruin the world above. Winner of both the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes, The Drowned Book is an extraordinary collection, a classic from one of the leading poets of our time.
Reader Age: From 18 years
Publication: UK
Imprint: Picador
Prizes: Winner of T. S. Eliot Prize 2008 Winner of Forward Prize for Poetry Best Collection 2007
Returns: Non-returnable
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