In this, his first collection of poems in fifteen years, Aidan Mathews brings together the sacred and the profane, playful and profound, the iconic and the everyday - illuminating the variousness and commonality of human experience. These poems wear their erudition lightly: dazzling us with their fresh observations, the strangely intimate details ('mice among the breadcrumbs of the Last Supper') and a fluid, metaphysical wit that can link a saint's matyrdom to a Sunday roast.
Mercurial, passionate and always surprising, According to the Small Hours is a triumphant return to the form.
- ISBN10 0224051253
- ISBN13 9780224051255
- Publish Date 15 October 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English