Includes poems which show us dealing well and also very badly with our kind and with the rest of the living planet. This title reminds us how funny people are, how vulnerable, lovable, bizarre and heroic.
Most of the other residents in the cavernous Victorian house - and the friends and acquaintances Al meets in tow local pubs, the bohemian and relaxed crowd at the Nevern and the slightly more... Læs mere
For Duffy, pictures are magical creations and recreations of the visible world - of history, mythologies, landscape, love and death - where the artists who make them attempt risk-taking feats analogous to a poet's with words.
Their lovemaking throughout the book forms a recurring lietmotif, a counterpoint to the examination of the spiritual death of the characters. In a South London environment of pub and... Læs mere
As he listens he grows convinced they are predicting London's future. Meepers, homeless and dishevelled, yet an enlightened and mystically knowing amateur archeologist, seeks to understand the destruction of London in the Dark Ages, hoping to predict the capital's future.
A new addition to the SF Masterwork series - the tale of the first human/gorilla hybrid, from his birth and growth to his inevitable end.