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Eric Gregory Award Winner The poems in Antler stalk their quarry over difficult ground. Prehistoric landscapes blend with genuine and imaginary anthropology; the real world becomes distorted through the dark mirrors of folktale and myth; fraudsters, liars, and con-men lurk perpetually in the shadows. This panorama is emotional, too, most vividly in the collection's centrepiece: the sequence 'Vaisala and Sinuhe', charting an astronomy professor's infatuation with one of his postgraduate students, who may or may not be a werewolf. Pared-down, playful and often very funny, Clegg's poetry keeps faith with what is tactile and tangible (moss, leather, bone), distilling plainspoken diction, luminous imagery and a unique worldview into lines which remain in the head for a long while after the book has been closed.Product Identifiers
PublisherSalt Publishing
ISBN-139781844719648
eBay Product ID (ePID)176288972
Product Key Features
Book TitleAntler
AuthorJohn Clegg
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPoetry
Publication Year2013
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJohn Clegg
Series TitleSalt Modern Poets
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom