Bones & Breath (Salt Modern Poets)

by Alexander Hutchison

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People want pleasure from poetry, and in Bones & Breath – this masterly collection from Alexander Hutchison – they will find it in many forms and registers. Power and beauty, mischief and humour. Longer poems mix satire with tender affection. Others offer everything from solar loops to red-throated divers.

The opening section of the book provides a scattering of poems in shorter forms, characteristically “elegant, humourous and deft by turns” as David Kinloch described elements of earlier work, and it contains several striking pieces, such as “Gavia Stellata” (“smallest/and brightest/and speckled/with stars”), a sharp catalogue of uncustomary characters in...

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  • ISBN10 1907773614
  • ISBN13 9781907773617
  • Publish Date 15 October 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 9 September 2016
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Salt Publishing