Written during the Gulf War for The Guardian, the title poem is Harrison's response to Ken Jarecke's potent photo of a charred Iraqi soldier on the road to Basra. "As a poet Harrison doesn't fool around.... There's something about his working-class temperament that hasn't time nor patience for metaphor and the grand abstraction. A Cold Coming is delivered rapid-fire in ninety-two clipped, rhymed couplets that never wear on the ear, driving the piece with relentless wit, heartbreak and a sick humor that is probably the only ...
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Written during the Gulf War for The Guardian, the title poem is Harrison's response to Ken Jarecke's potent photo of a charred Iraqi soldier on the road to Basra. "As a poet Harrison doesn't fool around.... There's something about his working-class temperament that hasn't time nor patience for metaphor and the grand abstraction. A Cold Coming is delivered rapid-fire in ninety-two clipped, rhymed couplets that never wear on the ear, driving the piece with relentless wit, heartbreak and a sick humor that is probably the only sane way to deal with the enormity of the subject...Harrison is a major poet, a tough and tender-minded realist fully aware of his spiritual contradictions". -- Willamette Week. "Harrison's poetry is fuelled by the strongest feeling and most exhilarating erudition, and attains a quite remarkable singularity". -- TLS.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This is a pamphlet. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 100grams, ISBN: 9781852241865.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This is a pamphlet. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 100grams, ISBN: 9781852241865.