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The body is the 'bad machine' of George Szirtes' latest book of poems. The sudden death of his elderly father and of his younger friend, the poet Michael Murphy, remind him how machines - sources of energy and delight in their prime - go so easily wrong; and that change in the body is a signal for moving on. But language too is a body. Here, politics, assimilation, desire, creatureliness and the pleasure and loss of the body, mingle in various attenuated forms such as lexicon, canzone, acrostics, mirror poems, postcards, and a series of 'minimenta' after Anselm Kiefer whose love of history as rubble and monument haunts this collection. George Szirtes is one of our most inventive - and constantly reinventing - poets, and Bad Machine shows him developing new themes and new ways of writing in poems which stretch the possibilities of form and question language and its mastery.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Bad Machine
• Author: George Szirtes
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• EAN: 9781852249571
• ISBN: 1852249579
• ID: 01226604
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Weight: 224 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 157 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. January 2013

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