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“Patrick McGuinness’s Blood Feather is a profound work of elegy, principally for the author’s mother, but also for the objects and places overtaken by time, for dynamited cooling towers and villages replaced by shopping centres, for the way one language replaces another. McGuinness is a brilliant ‘connoisseur of the noises things make when they leave.’” Read more...
Notable Poetry Books of 2024: The Inaugural PEN Heaney Prize Shortlist
Paula Meehan, Poet
Our most recommended books
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Staying Alive
by Neil Astley (editor) -
William Wordsworth: The Major Works
by Stephen Gill (editor) -
The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
by Virgil -
The Poet Reclining
by Ken Smith -
Dante in English
by Eric Griffiths & Matthew Reynolds -
The Cambridge History of American Poetry
by Alfred Bendixen & Stephen Burt (eds.)
