"Half Moon Bay" illustrates how Paul Mills's poetry has changed in scale and range over the last 12 years. The first poems deal with travel, with the poet's children and his own childhood: trial explorations in the use of perspective, fully developed in the poems set in America, the eastern Sierra Nevada and on the Pacific coast near Santa Cruz and the Half Moon Bay of the title. It is a natural progression to poems on an entirely different scale, dealing with ecological themes and the ways in which our view of the world is ...
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"Half Moon Bay" illustrates how Paul Mills's poetry has changed in scale and range over the last 12 years. The first poems deal with travel, with the poet's children and his own childhood: trial explorations in the use of perspective, fully developed in the poems set in America, the eastern Sierra Nevada and on the Pacific coast near Santa Cruz and the Half Moon Bay of the title. It is a natural progression to poems on an entirely different scale, dealing with ecological themes and the ways in which our view of the world is altered by recent insights into astro-physics. The Alex Kidd sequence bears the mark of the new decade, exploring narrative form with exemplary assurance. Images from film and screen culture expand the range of his writing.
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8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (very lightly rubbed at head of spine, small and unobtrusive mark on fore edge-otherwise VG). Pp. 95 (no inscriptions).
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. 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, 250grams, ISBN: 9781857540000.
