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Waiting for the Nightingale

  • ISBN-13: 9781784103408
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Miles Burrows
  • Price: AUD $24.99
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  • Local release date: 31/01/2019
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 112 pages Weight: 180g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Miles Burrows is a poet always in love, and confused – as lovers tend to be – by the inconstant nature of ‘the other’. In this, his second book of poems, published half a century after the first (A Vulture’s Egg, 1966), he is also aware, merrily for the most part, of mortality. Eros and Thanatos tap at his funny bone. Does God exist? he asks. Will the nightingale, the one right nightingale, sing?
The landscapes of these poems are drawn from the Far East, New Guinea and the Home Counties, where Burrows has served as a doctor, psychiatrist and a teacher. Thematically the poems build on Burrows’s eccentric childhood in a vanished but vividly reimagined, even re-invented England, rich in voices, disappointments and epiphanies and always maintaining a dialogue – now mischievous, now outrageous – with the present. The reader gratefully turns the pages, hoping the conversation will continue well beyond the back cover.

•Miles Burrows is always in love, confused by the inconstancy of ‘the other’. Eros and thanatos tap constantly at his funny bone
•He studied Russian, Classics and medicine, and was New Statesman travel and fiction reviewer
•His first collection was published by Cape in 1966:‘If Catullus wrote for Vogue…’
•He won the Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine, worked as a doctor in Thailand, New Guinea, and Haverhill. He now lives in Cambridge.

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