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Author_Sean Borodale
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Product details
- ISBN 9781787331792
- Weight: 102g
- Dimensions: 133 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 24 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The poems of Inmates stage encounters with insects at sites and moments of their refuge, torpor, hatching or fighting, of traversing a floor in the night or climbing a wall, of their death and decay – all in and around the house of the writer, with whom they are sharing time, as fellow inmates.
There is an urgency to these poems, emerging from the instant of their writing, and the close attention Borodale brings to his observation of the natural world results in poems of real intensity. Inmates is an attempt to co-exist with the natural world – examining it, intimately, at the edge of language itself, where the human voice begins to break apart.
Sean Borodale was born in London and works as a poet and artist. His first collection of poetry, Bee Journal, was shortlisted for the 2012 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He is also the author of collections Human Work, Asylum and Inmates. In 2014 he was selected as one of twenty Next Generation Poets.
