Negotiating the borders and hinterlands of Central and Eastern Europe - with occasional coracle trips or forays to Antarctica for a round of golf - the homesick flaneur surveys the surrounding devastation with the same mixture of fascination and alarm he feels when he discovers the sweat-mark on his T-shirt makes a perfect map of Ireland. All around, he sees natural and man-made catastrophe: the ruins and remnants of war peopled by kidnappers and assassins, feral dogs, death squads, the dispossessed and deracinated.
These poems are parables of threat, parties for the end of the world; they speak eloquently of damage, displacement and the resulting swell of terror:
'I looked back at the door
heard the lock click, then beyond
another lock, then another.'
| ISBN: | 9780224080927 |
| Publication date: | 19th July 2007 |
| Author: | Matthew Sweeney |
| Publisher: | Jonathan Cape an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 68 pages |
| Series: | Cape Poetry |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets |
Negotiating the borders and hinterlands of Central and Eastern Europe - with occasional coracle trips or forays to Antarctica for a round of golf - the homesick flaneur surveys the surrounding devastation with the same mixture of fascination and alarm he feels when he discovers the sweat-mark on his T-shirt makes a perfect map of Ireland. All around, he sees natural and man-made catastrophe: the ruins and remnants of war peopled by kidnappers and assassins, feral dogs, death squads, the dispossessed and deracinated.
Black Moon features in the following genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets
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Black Moon was written by Matthew Sweeney and published by Jonathan Cape an imprint of Vintage Publishing
Black Moon has 68 pages
Yes it is part of Cape Poetry series
£10.80, reduced from £12.00. Print on Demand / Special Order.