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Samarkand

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Few first collections in recent years have made the impact of Kate Clanchy's award-winning Slattern, which gained her a reputation as a poet of great immediacy and wit.

In this new book her range is extended dramatically.

Samarkand is both a darker and a more sunlit collection than its predecessor.

Inside, the reader will find surreal elegies; love poems of every humour; grim episodes from colonial history and meditations on home and distance as well as some practical advice on having sex with angels -- all delivered with the effortless musicality of phrase and formal panache that are fast becoming Clanchy's trademarks.

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Picador
0330371940 / 9780330371940
Paperback / softback
821.914
09/07/1999
United Kingdom
English
55p.
20 cm
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Kate Clanchy won an Eric Gregory Award in 1994. In 1997 she was awarded The Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
Kate Clanchy won an Eric Gregory Award in 1994. In 1997 she was awarded The Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. DC Poetry