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Pastorals, Peter McDonald's third collection, is his first full-length book of poems in eight years. At its heart are poems that approach places, times, and states of mind 'part history and part escape'; here, past and present can answer to one another as elements in a contemporary mosaic of knowledge and invention, memory and entertainment. McDonald sees in these situations a modern pastoral. The personal and the public interact in many of these poems; others address personal histories and their creative consequences, alongside religious and mythological motifs. Subtle, compelling, and memorable, McDonald's poems combine a tenderness and gravity of thought with a sharpness of observation which gives the wide canvass of Pastorals its distinctive power.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Pastorals
• Author: Peter McDonald
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9781857547528
• ISBN: 1857547527
• ID: 05117802
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 108 g
• Dimensions: 136 × 215 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. August 2004

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