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Dancers in Daylight

Poems 1995-2002
  • ISBN-13: 9780856463648
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: ANVIL PRESS POETRY
  • By Anthony Howell
  • Price: AUD $24.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
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  • Local release date: 27/02/2013
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 138.00mm) 144 pages Weight: 200g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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In the title poem, set in Rome, a chance meeting with the dying Rudolf Nureyev strikes the poet, himself a dancer, as hallucinatory. Along with the poems prompted by his mother's death, it is one of several unsettling poems in this collection. Yet a celebratory strain runs through the book, providing a counter-balance: there are poems which celebrate active life, vigorous sexuality, and the subtle steps of the tango. The result is a characteristically robust and varied collection which continues the vein of subtle dandyism for which Howell is renowned.
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