The Breaking Hour

by Kevin Crossley-Holland

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This is a book of meetings. A mother meets her baby. A man steps into his childhood. An old man encounters Godfather Death. And in the persona of Harald Hardrada, a passionate man wrestles with his fantasies, and north meets south. Many of Kevin Crossley-Holland's beautifully wrought, often moving poems inhabit the crossing-places between actuality, memory and imagination; and invoking Orpheus and Atargatis, Pierre de Ronsard and Beethoven, they journey from Hades to a hellish warzone, and from the high Alps and to the creeks and saltmarshes of north Norfolk. This is a signed limited edition of 35 numbered copies. Clothbound by The Fine Book Bindery and each copy includes a different specially handwritten poem by the author bound into the book.
  • ISBN10 1910392227
  • ISBN13 9781910392225
  • Publish Date 12 June 2015
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Enitharmon Press
  • Edition Special edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 80
  • Language English