Dances Learned Last Night gathers together two decades of Michael Donaghy’s poetry in one volume, and includes several previously uncollected pieces.
Uncompromisingly intelligent, Donaghy is often described as a `modern metaphysical’, though his range has always been far broader. Here the reader will find an array of masks and voices that fit for quick changes – songs of desire and loss back to back with spring-loaded jokes and chinese-box riddles. From all this Donaghy emerges as that rarest of beasts: a poet who is genuinely extending the tradition.
`Among the finest poets of his generation’ Robert McPhillips
`The artistry of Donaghy’s worl seems to me exemplary’ Sean O’Brien
`The fine-tuned precision of a twelve-speed bike’ Alfred Corn
- ISBN10 0330481940
- ISBN13 9780330481946
- Publish Date 8 September 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 September 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Picador
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 128
- Language English