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The Ogre's WifeAnthony Howell![]()
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (56 pages) (Pub. Oct 2009) 9780856464225 Out of Stock
A Kingfisher Frequenting a corner of an eye, As for the one apparent Of river and trees, that ?ight – Sooner gone than seen. Anthony Howell’s first collection for several years moves in unusual directions. Guilt and society’s victimization of those it punishes are among its subjects: it begins with poems concerned with the harm caused by anorexia and moves on to investigate the situation of offenders held in units for ‘vulnerable’ prisoners. The collection includes two longer poems: ‘Ode to a Routine’ chronicles the odyssey of one sentenced to commute across London, while the title poem extends a theme of dubious empathy explored by Browning in ‘My Last Duchess’. As always Anthony Howell’s poems are cool, intelligent, entertaining and simply different from anything else being written. |
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