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The Blind Roadmaker

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

The Blind Roadmaker

By Ian Duhig

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About the book

If the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly varied new collection is Sterne's "Tristram Shandy," its presiding genius is the great 18th-century civil engineer, fiddler, and polymath Blind Jack Metcalf whose life Duhig here celebrates, and from whose example he draws great inspiration. Writing with an almost Burnsian eclecticism, Duhig explores urban poverty, determinism, social justice, and the consolations of poetry and music on a journey that takes in everything from a ri...Show more

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9781509809813

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

The Blind Roadmaker

Format

Paperback

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