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A to BGerry McGrath10% off eBook (EPUB)
Categories: 21st Century, First Collections, Scottish
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Aug 2011) 9781847777997 £9.95 £8.96 Paperback (80 pages) (Pub. May 2008) 9781857548778 £9.95 £8.96 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
Shadows creep and shrink. The air’s browned like an apple.
The forest is a city without weight, the path is a trampoline. In the depths of oil and ore the bones of the earth spring back under our shallow, pointing feet. from ‘Forest Path’
A to B began as a poem about a journey: it became a journey in itself, a collection that travels through emotions and places, unfolding to the rhythms of discovery and memory. Places and people reveal their secrets; fragile bonds of love link past to present.
In the book’s first part, an elusive pattern is glimpsed in fragments: a plane climbs into a clear evening sky, the year turns to spring, a father’s voice is remembered after his death. The second part is marked by meticulous observation. A man watches daylight creep across a room. And the concluding section celebrates a quality of silence in which imagination grows. Gerry McGrath extends our understanding of what it is to travel through the world. I Higher No End of Exile Magpie Steady Sycamores Weight A Question Sleep Alights Baby Spuds Early Flowers Overnight In No Time Only Life A Man Unable II Pointing North The Colour of Water Dry Flood Phenomenon True Air Midsummer Busy Secrets Old Masters Gift Limits Whispers Anstruther Dead House Same Bird Shape of a Chair Anklet No Forgetting Still Particles Soft Tissue Among the Blue Calling Baci The Language of Pines The Water, the Shore Invisible Brief Season Watching Primrose Dishwater A Sense of Occasion Promise III The Middle Distance Small Fires A Milky Sunlight Two Friends Mint Tea Blue Light Basics Morning Forest Path Bright Walkway The Painter Island Currency Yellow Ticket First Detail Introductions A to B Powder Blue Imaginable Longing Small Hand First Love Lately Tilleul Around the Edge Cities White Rain In Loving Memory Younger Green Shallows
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