The Pomegranates of Kandahar

Author: Sarah Maguire
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets
Book Format: Paperback

Sarah Maguire's rich and lyrical poems have been highly praised for the ease with which they ground precise, sensual detail within the wider context of world events. In this remarkable new collection, her poems travel greater distances than ever before. The title poem laments the devastation visited upon Afghanistan following decades of war. Other poems consider the casualties of political unrest- would-be migrants in Tangiers gazing northwards at the longed-for phantasmagoria of 'Europe'; and packs of wolves on the loose in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. But there are intimate poems too, often using scientific vocabularies to offset a personal moment, as in 'Landscape, with Dead Sea' where the erosion of the poet's skin is connected to geological transformations at the earth's core.

About Sarah Maguire
Born in 1957, Sarah Maguire has published three previous collections of poetry, Spilt Milk, The Invisible Mender and The Florist's at Midnight, as well as the anthology Flora Poetica: the Chatto Book of Botanical Verse. She is the founder and director of the Poetry Translation Centre at SOAS, and was co-translator with Yama Yari of Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi's A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear (Chatto, 2006). She is also Founder of the Poetry Translation Centre, responsible for introducing a wide range of international poets into English. Sarah Maguire has lived all her life in west London.

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SKU BK-9780701181314
Barcode # 9780701181314
Brand Chatto & Windus
Artist / Author Sarah Maguire
Shipping Weight 0.1000kg
Shipping Width 0.140m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.220m
Assembled Length 21.500m
Assembled Height 0.700m
Assembled Width 13.500m
Type Paperback

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