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Small Pointed Things

Small Pointed Things - Paperback

by Erica McAlpine
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Availability:In StockContributor:Erica McAlpinePublish date:6/26/2025Pages:88
Language:EnglishPublisher:Carcanet PressISBN-13:9781800174771ISBN-10:1800174772UPC:9781800174771Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.30 x 5.10 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2601Product ID:SCYYBEXKZB

Small Pointed Things

Punctuated by rhyme and shaped by traditional forms, the poems in Small Pointed Things turn encounters with the natural world and scenes from family life into acts of self-discovery. Poignant and funny in equal measure, many of these poems address human concerns by comically reimagining them through the analogous 'lives' of plants and animals - from snowdrops to love-lies-bleeding, manatees to...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Carcanet PressISBN-13:9781800174771ISBN-10:1800174772UPC:9781800174771Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.30 x 5.10 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2601Product ID:SCYYBEXKZB

Erica McAlpine is Associate Professor of English at Oxford and the A.C. Cooper Fellow in English at St Edmund Hall. Her book The Poet's Mistake appeared from Princeton University Press in 2020; a collection of poems, The Country Gambler, was published by Shearsman in 2016.


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