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Thrilling first novel by award-winning poet
A book about bodies, dead and living, real and imagined, earthbound and resurrected
Michael Symmons Roberts has published five collections of poetry, including Corpus, which won the 2004 Whitbread Poetry Award and was short-listed for the Forward, T.S. Eliot and Griffin International Prizes, and The Half Healed (2008). He has also published two novels, Patrick's Alphabet (2006) and Breath (2008). He is a frequent collaborator with the composer James MacMillan and is also an award-winning radio writer and documentary film-maker.
Powerful second novel from the Whitbread-winning author of Patrick's Alphabet.
'These are complex poems of darkness and radiance, miracle and desolation. And behind their answering energies, an awareness of the scintilla of grace.'Pauline Stainer
His first collection since the Whitbread-winning Corpus
Shortlisted for the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize - this is a book about the blank spaces on the A-Z: the lost and unloved 'edgelands' between cities and countryside
A very powerful sequence of poems about Greenham Common
First Cape outing for this important lyric poet