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Seahouses
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- Book Synopsis
- In his first collection of poetry, Richard Barnett turns a precise gaze and a musical sensibility on the worlds we inherit and the worlds we make for ourselves. In the award-winning title sequence, the sea sifts and rolls through the dreams of an old man asleep in a deckchair, conjuring a vision of England's history and our human crossings.Seahouses is a distinctively English work of low modernism, cranky, eloquent, broken-hearted. It is a book for people who read Hill, but who wish he'd be less marmoreal; people who read Paterson & Robinson, but who wish they'd drop the pose sometimes & fucking well cheer up; people who are smart and musical and angry, but who don't want to read yet another version of the Duino Elegies or 'The Wood of Suicides'; people who love history, but hate National Trust Houses; people who read nature poetry, but who don't hate cities; people who walk by the cliffs; people who've had their hearts broken, & who've broken someone else's.Richard Barnett studied medicine in London before becoming a historian, and is now a freelance writer and broadcaster. His history books include The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration (Thames & Hudson, 2014).
- About The Author
- Richard Barnett is a poet and a historian. Seahouses, his first collection, came out with Valley Press in 2015, and was shortlisted for the Poetry Business Prize. He taught the history of science and medicine at Cambridge, UCL, and Oxford for more than a decade, and his history books include Medical London, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and The Sick Rose, an international bestseller. Find him online at richardbarnettwriter.com.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781908853462
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Valley Press, (01 March 2015)
- Number of Pages
- 46
- Weight
- 83 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 150 x 22 mm
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