Few first collections in recent years have made the impact of Kate Clanchy's award-winning Slattern, which gained her a reputation as a poet of great immediacy and wit. In this new book her range is extended dramatically. Samarkand is both a darker and a more sunlit collection than its predecessor. Inside, the reader will find surreal elegies; love poems of every humour; grim episodes from colonial history and meditations on home and distance as well as some practical advice on having sex with angels - all delivered with the effortless musicality of phrase and formal panache that are fast becoming Clanchy's trademarks.
| ISBN: | 9780330371940 |
| Publication date: | 9th July 1999 |
| Author: | Kate Clanchy |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 55 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) |