Small pointed things
McAlpine, Erica2025
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Punctuated by rhyme and shaped by traditional forms, the poems in 'Small Pointed Things' turn encounters with the natural world and scenes from family life into acts of self-discovery. Poignant and funny in equal measure, many of these poems address human concerns by comically reimagining them through the analogous 'lives' of plants and animals. Formally deft and classically inspired, with hints of Wordsworth, Frost and Marianne Moore, the poems seek to uncover various forms of knowledge while taking aim, ultimately, at knowingness itself.
Main title:
Small pointed things / Erica McAlpine.
Author:
McAlpine, Erica, author
Imprint:
Manchester : Carcanet Press, 2025.
Collation:
88 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781800174771 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
811.6
Language:
English
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BRN:
8964090
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