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Jilted City

  • ISBN-13: 9781857549683
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Patrick Mcguinness
  • Price: AUD $24.99
  • Stock: 3 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 27/02/2013
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 74 pages Weight: 110g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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The poems in "Jilted City" inhabit in-between-places, when a border is being crossed, a word is slipping into another language, when memory is translating loss. From 'Stations where the train doesn't stop' in 'Blue Guide', following a train journey through Belgium, to 'City of Lost Walks', English versions of a dissident Romanian poet whose 'poetry fails to register except in the form of an omission', McGuinness explores transition and translation, the afterlife of absences. Wit and paradox are at the heart of a collection that finds unforeseen connections between place and displacement.
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