Careful What You Wish For |
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| Author:
| Sansom, Peter |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78410-032-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2015 |
| Publisher: | Carcanet Press, Limited
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $13.99USD $13.99 |
Book Description:
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A night in Matlock Bath, an Ode to Indolence, a boy running the ploughed fields of cross-country, and the 1975 Reading Festival, Careful What You Wish For is winter mornings lit by the tame volcano of a lava lamp, and it is Camus, St-Exupéry, and Ken Dodd. Also it is Robert Lowell in a canal boat just outside Mirfield, not to mention family poems and love and tennis poems, and the biggest comeback in golf history--as told by the caddy. Peter Sansom's latest collection is clear-eyed,...
More DescriptionA night in Matlock Bath, an Ode to Indolence, a boy running the ploughed fields of cross-country, and the 1975 Reading Festival, Careful What You Wish For is winter mornings lit by the tame volcano of a lava lamp, and it is Camus, St-Exupéry, and Ken Dodd. Also it is Robert Lowell in a canal boat just outside Mirfield, not to mention family poems and love and tennis poems, and the biggest comeback in golf history--as told by the caddy. Peter Sansom's latest collection is clear-eyed, tender, and full of bewilderment by what life is and does.