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The Long Beds

  • ISBN-13: 9781784109677
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Kate Miller
  • Price: AUD $27.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 01/12/2020
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 80 pages Weight: 130g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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A Poetry Book Society Autumn 2020 Recommendation The Long Beds explores the cell-like containment of the small hours when the body has no estate but its bed, while - waking or dreaming - the mind sets out on its travels, often in the realms of an old life, cherished items or relinquished connections. Central to the poems' imagery is the presence of a bedstead that has survived a bombing raid, protecting only what was bundled underneath it. In painterly language Kate Miller also trains her eye and ear outwards on grand, impersonal scenes: London at dawn, riverbanks and docks, the corridors of a great hospital: to uncover fogged experience and restore colour to memory. Her poems prod us awake at first light and release us into the morning.
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