
Kissing a Bone
Maura Dooley(Author)
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 26. September 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-85224-373-9 (ISBN)
Description
Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam Thorpe praised her ability 'to enact and ?nd images for complex feelings... Her poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable toughness...she manages to combine detailed domesticity with lyrical beauty, most perfectly in the metaphor of memory ' (Literary Review). In Kissing a Bone, her second book-length collection, Maura Dooley's focus has broadened. In a landscape stretching from Tranquillity Base to Crossmaglen, via the Northern Line and the Berlin Wall, memory and photography, love and death, are captured through the imperfect lens of history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Tyne and Wear
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
111 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85224-373-9 (9781852243739)
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