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Jupiter Collisions
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Lockdown poetry
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Small Hours
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Wendy Cope
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- ISBN 9780571375387
- Weight: 100g
- Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2022
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Many of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus afforded by lockdown. They look forward as well as back, toying with possible futures, enthused by utopian dreams or fearing cultural and bodily entropy. They celebrate and mourn the lives of friends and relatives, captivated by carefully tended images from the past. Lockdown's 'missing months' in the world of a four-year-old granddaughter are laid down and remembered for her. Familiar objects - a park bench, stones, grass, stars, windows - are reanimated. This poetry of imaginative journeying 'stretches/Banks on a slope of air and turns' like the heron it watches. Between the crackle of radio signals and rain, the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam and the American singer Miranda Lambert, here is a poet in search of points of reference, the 'bright fresh leaves' of sunlight among the ruins.
Lachlan Mackinnon lives in Ely. He is author of six collections of poems including Small Hours, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry in 2010 and works of criticism and biography. He is a regular reviewer for the national press and received a Cholmondeley Award in 2011.
