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TY - BOOK
T1 - The bestiary
AU - Meekings, Sam
N1 - ”Shuttles between the natural, the philosophical, and the manufactured world, never missing a beat…my expectations are high for the future of Sam Meekings.” Edinburgh Review “Elemental, creaturely, intelligent, and utterly convincing. Nature is not just observed in these poems, but lived.” Douglas Dunn “A rather beautiful volume of verse.” The Lady
PY - 2008/4/1
Y1 - 2008/4/1
N2 - "The textbook tells us that the frog lives a double life: between sea and land, between impossible distance and delayed arrival. See, those jumpy chubby reels of twitching slime, and this little pip below the chin; the first voice the universe heard, halved and inside-out." "The Bestiary" is an astonishing debut collection of lyrical, intelligent poems which challenge the ways in which we respond to the natural environment around us. With subjects that range from sea-bound eels, lost hedgehogs and lonely butchers to a 17th-century autopsy, Chinese mythology and the flight patterns of snow geese, Sam Meekings' poems explore both the instability and the small moments of epiphany in our complex and changing world.
AB - "The textbook tells us that the frog lives a double life: between sea and land, between impossible distance and delayed arrival. See, those jumpy chubby reels of twitching slime, and this little pip below the chin; the first voice the universe heard, halved and inside-out." "The Bestiary" is an astonishing debut collection of lyrical, intelligent poems which challenge the ways in which we respond to the natural environment around us. With subjects that range from sea-bound eels, lost hedgehogs and lonely butchers to a 17th-century autopsy, Chinese mythology and the flight patterns of snow geese, Sam Meekings' poems explore both the instability and the small moments of epiphany in our complex and changing world.
KW - poetry
KW - animals
KW - nature
KW - pastoral
KW - poems
M3 - Book
SN - 1846970466
SN - 978-1846970467
BT - The bestiary
PB - Polygon
CY - Edinburgh
ER -