Snow Bees - Couverture souple

Muckle, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848619022 ISBN 13 : 9781848619029

Editeur : Shearsman Books, 2023

Synopsis

Rob Goddard knew he shouldn't be travelling during a national lockdown, but it was Xmas and he headed West to see his family anyway. At Waterloo, the train seemed completely empty; perhaps it was, but an exploratory walk revealed at least four other passengers. All dead. They were ghosts. People he'd known; people who had died far too young.

At first a convivial reunion, the journey's mood changed when four more travellers embarked, mutating further when two of them hatched into enormous dragonflies, meganeura, extinct for hundreds of millions of years. Rob, a poet, was reminded of the dragonflies that 'draw flame' in Gerard Manley Hopkins' famous sonnet. But these angelic giants possessed many different powers. Also, ominously, it had begun to snow heavily.

Snow Bees is an apocalyptic novel with a difference, a roller coaster to the end of the night, a story in which hilarity rubs shoulders with death, and poetry rescues memory: a world apparently charging headlong towards oblivion in the plot of heaven.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Muckle is a fiction writer, poet and critic. He is the author of six books of fiction, including 'The Cresta Run' (Galloping Dog Press, 1987), 'Cyclomotors', an acclaimed short illustrated novel set in the early 1950s (available through Shearsman Books), and the novels 'London Brakes' (Shearsman, 2010), 'My Pale Tulip' (2012), 'Falling Through' (2017), and the short-story collection 'Late Driver' (2020). His first full-length poetry collection, 'Firewriting and Other Poems', appeared from Shearsman in 2005, and a sequel, 'Mirrorball', came out in 2018. 'Little White Bull' (2014), his study of British fiction in the 1950s and 60s, remapped its chosen period in an original way. In the eighties he launched the Paladin Poetry imprint and was general editor of its flagship anthology, 'The New British Poetry' (eds. D'Aguiar, Allnutt, Edwards, Mottram, 1988). He lives in North London, and works as a teacher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shearsman Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848619022
• ISBN 13: 9781848619029
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 214
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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