In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion how we are always actor and audience to ourselvesThis is McGuinnesss best collection by far, and stands out from the crowdSUNDAY TIMESIn Blood Feather, a book of doubling and displacement, we see time in a new way the past, personal and collective, lingering as an everpresent ghost while lost beyond recall.The first section, Squeeze the Day a series of deeply moving poems about the authors mother, displaced between languages investigates her illness and death how being bilingual is like having a double, a second self how each self haunts the other. The Noises Things Make When They Leave elegises todays postindustrial landscapes, their people and professions sidelined by literature, bypassed by globalisation. The final sequence, After the Flood, links the books themes, seeking a way of seeing things for the first time and the last time simultaneously. Exploring the gaps between languages and between our selves in language, Patrick McGuinness dreams of a new tense in which the worlds losses are redeemedIts the anniversary of my mothers death,and its my mothers birthday the day she shortcircuited the tenses,made the current flow both ways.A clearsighted, intimate new poetry collection from the prizewinning author of Other Peoples Countries and Throw me to the Wolves.

Binding: Paperback;80 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: DC; Weight: 220 g; Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 13

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