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Item Details
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THE BLIND ROADMAKER
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| By: |
Ian Duhig |
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Electronic book text |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1509809821 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781509809820 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
11 February, 2016 |
| Synopsis: |
If the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly varied new collection is Sterne's Tristram Shandy, its presiding genius is the great eighteenth-century civil engineer, fiddler and polymath Blind Jack Metcalf - whose life Duhig here celebrates, and from whose example he draws great inspiration. Writing with an almost Burnsian eclecticism, Duhig explores urban poverty, determinism, social justice and the consolations of poetry and music on a journey that takes in everything from a riotous reimagining of Don Juan to the tragedy of Manuel Bravo (the Leeds asylum seeker from Angola who was forced to defend himself in court, and later took his own life). No poet today writes with such a sense of political and social conscience, and The Blind Roadmaker affirms Duhig's belief in poetry as a means of commemorating those who least deserve to be forgotten. |
| Reader Age: |
From 18 years |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Picador |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Roehampton Poetry Prize 2016
Short-listed for T. S. Eliot Prize 2017
Short-listed for Forward Prize for Poetry Best Collection 2016 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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