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Inside the wave

Paperback • 2018 • English • 1. edition

Inside the wave

By Helen Dunmore

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About the book

To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead - the underworld and the human living world - and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they explore the bliss and anguish of the voyage. Inside the Wave is Helen Dunmore's first new poetry book since The Malarkey (2012), whose title-poem won the National Poetry Competition. Her other books i...Show more

Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Poetry by individual poets

Book details

ISBN

9781780373584

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books

Published year

2018

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Inside the wave

Format

Paperback

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