Best-selling poet Sophie Hannah returns with a wonderful collection of poems that explore and celebrate strong feelings: love, hate, anger, hope - and which strip away the veils of hypocrisy and pretence from all aspects of everyday life. From relationships to the world of work, motherhood and marri
First of the Last Chances
โ Scribed by Hannah, Sophie
- Publisher
- Carcanet
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 31 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 1847778747
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โฆ Synopsis
Best-selling poet Sophie Hannah returns with a wonderful collection of poems that explore and celebrate strong feelings: love, hate, anger, hope - and which strip away the veils of hypocrisy and pretence from all aspects of everyday life. From relationships to the world of work, motherhood and marriage, Sophie Hannah tells it how it is in her own inimitable style. Funny and moving, these poems combine traditional form and rhyme with a contemporary take on modern life that simultaneously raises a smile and provides thoughts to linger over. This collection also include A Woman's Life and Loves.;Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Long for This World; You Won't Find a Bath in Leeds; Out of This World; Wells-Next-the-Sea; Six of One; Seasonal Dilemma; Second-hand Advice for a Friend; Dark Mechanic Mills; Martins Heron Heart; Tide to Land; The Shadow Tree; He is Now a Country Member; Silk Librarian; God's Eleventh Rule; Where to Look; Brief Encounter; The Cycle; Black River; The Cancellation; The Guest Speaker; Everyone in the Changing Room; Your Funeral; Away-day; Mother-to-be; Now and Then; Healing Powers; Homeopathy; Your Turn Next.
โฆ Subjects
English poetry -- 21st century
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