Striking a Match in a Storm Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781800172333, Carcanet, March 2022
320 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
The Welsh poet Andrew McNeillie brings together in this generous and timely volume his seven collections of poems – including his most recent, "Making Ends Meet", and his Forward-Prize-shortlisted Carcanet collection "Nevermore" (2000). McNeillie's p...
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Winter Moorings
ISBN: PB: 9781847772480, Carcanet, February 2014
72 pp., 21,0x13,7 cm
Andrew McNeillie's sixth collection returns to the sea and its immensity as a metaphor for fate. It also revisits the British and Irish archipelago ("For which read a figure for my heart. / For which too read a figure for time's hurt"), following a n...
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In Mortal Memory
ISBN: PB: 9781847770844, Carcanet, February 2010
72 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
"In Mortal Memory" is a collection of lyric poems, celebratory if often melancholy, both elegiac and ironic. Affirming that life is "all becoming" McNeillie mourns what that means in terms of loss and sorrow at time passing. The sea is a powerful pre...
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Slower
ISBN: PB: 9781857548280, Carcanet, July 2006
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
"Slower", Andrew McNeillie's third collection, meditates on personal and natural history, nation states and mental states, violence, religion and poetry. It treats too of personal bereavement, and of love and marriage. The poem sequences at its core...
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Now, Then
ISBN: PB: 9781903039601, Carcanet, October 2002
120 pp., 21,5x13,0 cm
Illusions and delusions, joys and jokes, mysteries of memory and temporal paradox figure in Andrew McNeillie's new collection. Here are new sequences of bird poems, and tree poems, lines from an autobiography, lines from America, and poems about old...
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Nevermore
ISBN: PB: 9781903039021, Carcanet, November 2000
264 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
Nevermore is an elegy for lost times and threatened things. It celebrates recollection and the "immortality of youth", and youth's passions: for natural history (as in the group of bird poems entitled "Plato's Aviary"), for the naive curiosity and lu...
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