
Small Hours
Lachlan MacKinnon(Author)
Faber & Faber (Publisher)
Published on 21. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-571-25350-0 (ISBN)
Description
Lachlan MacKinnon's fourth collection opens with a gathering of lyrics and descriptive poems: observing rites of passage (elegies, wedding poems), offering nuanced accounts of places and their patchwork afterlives (the Midlands, a Suffolk sketchbook), or meditations on historical figures introspectively at odds with their time (King Canute, Edward Thomas). This preoccupation with contingency - personal and historical - opens onto The Book of Emma: a long poem of fifty-four sections, written mostly in prose, which address a lost friend and contemporary in terms which seem laconically factual, but which draw their power from archaic conventions (Egyptian, Celtic) of talking to the dead.
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 130 mm
Width: 196 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
122 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-25350-0 (9780571253500)
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Person
Lachlan Mackinnon was born in 1956 and educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford. He teaches at Winchester College. He is the author of two critical studies and a biography; he has reviewed regularly for the national press. Small Hours is his fourth collection of poems.