According to the Small Hours

Author: Aidan Mathews
Publisher: Yellow Jersey Press
Category: Poetry Books, Poetry By Individual Poets
Book Format: Paperback

In this, his first collection of poems in fifteen years, Aidan Matthews brings together the scared and the profane, playful and profound, the iconic and the everyday - illuminating the variousness and commonality of human experience. These poems wear their erudition lightly- dazzling us with their fresh observations, the strangely intimate details ('mice among the breadcrumbs of the Last Supper') and a fluid, metaphysical wit that can link a saint's matyrdom to a Sunday roast. Mercurial, passionate and always surprising, According to the Small Hours is a triumphant return to the form.

About Aidan Mathews
Aidan Mathew's first book, published when he was twenty-one, was the colection of poems Windfalls. he had already won the Irish Times Award and the Patrick Kavanagh Award, and he went on to publish a second collection six years later, in 1983. Since then he has concentrated on drama and fiction - his first book of stories, Adventures in a Bathyscope, being shortlisted for the first GPA Award. The Italian edition of his Lipstick on the Host won the a Cavour Prize for Foreign Fiction.

SKU BK-9780224051255
Barcode # 9780224051255
Brand Yellow Jersey Press
Artist / Author Aidan Mathews
Shipping Weight 0.1800kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 19.800m
Assembled Height 1.700m
Assembled Width 13.000m
Type Paperback

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