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Men Who Feed Pigeons

By Selima Hill

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Men Who Feed Pigeons

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Men Who Feed Pigeons brings together seven contrasting but complementary poem sequences by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson) relating to men and different kinds of women's relationships with men. The Anaesthetist is about men at work; The Beautiful Man with the Unpronounceable Name is about someone else's husband; Billy relates to friendship between a man and a woman; Biro is about living next door to a mysterious uncle; The Man in the Quilted Dressing-gown portrays a very particular old man; Ornamental Lakes as Seen from Trains is about a woman and a man she's afraid of; while Shoebill is another sequence about a woman and a man, but quite different from the others. Like all of Selima Hill's work, all seven sequences in this book chart 'extreme experience with a dazzling excess' (Deryn Rees-Jones), with startling humour and surprising combinations of homely and outlandish.
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Forward Prize and Rathbones Folio Prize.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
2021-12-07
Publication Date:
2021-12-01
Publisher:
Bloodaxe Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1780375867
ISBN13:
9781780375861
Weight:
211 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
9 cm
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