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Take us the Little Foxes

Collected Poems

ISBN-13: 9781800171398
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
By Miles Burrows
Price: AUD $37.99
Stock: 14 in stock
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Local release date: 10/01/2022
Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 220 pages Weight: 270g
Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

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Google Preview: The poetry of Miles Burrows was discovered in 1966 when Tom Maschler, already an editor at Cape, heard him give a public reading in London. Cape published him. After that, Burrows continued his life in many walks, most of them medical. Having studied Greats at Oxford, he determined to become an intellectual and learned to smoke black Russian cigarettes, reviewing occasionally for the New Statesman. He worked as a GP and then as a psychiatrist. He was briefly a trawlerman, then a doctor in the New Guinea Highlands, in the American Hospital for Hmong tribe refugees on the Thai-Laos border, in a Catholic mission Hospital in Eastern Taiwan, in the Middle East and in Suffolk. This Collected Poems is a rich harvest from the decades between 1966 and 2021. The poems are primarily conversational. The poet is keen to get into exclusive places he has no right to be – clubs, social strata, religions. Much of the adventure, the disrupted narrative, has to do with being out of place. Its long narratives – work as a trawlerman in Iceland, a traditional funeral in Taiwan – open on worlds that are made vertiginously real.; Miles Burrows was born in Leicester and educated at Wadham College, Oxford University, where he graduated in Classics, Philosophy and Medicine, having studied Russian in National Service. He did his internship at University College London and has practised as a doctor in the United Kingdom, New Guinea and in the Far East. He also worked as a book reviewer for the New Statesman. His first Carcanet collection, Waiting for the Nightingale, was published in 2017.; • A Collected Poems that turns cuts and stumbles through the self-contradictions, selfdeceptions,and absurdities of everyday life, a rich harvest from the decades between 1966 and 2021.
• A collection of humorous, conversational and oddly profound poetic ‘sketches’ and dramas.
• Subjects range from love, death, and quantum cosmology, to kidnapping a German General in Crete, and retraining as a young Parisian seamstress...
• He studied Russian, Classics and medicine, and was New Statesman travel and fiction reviewer.
• He won the Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine, worked as a doctor in Thailand, New Guinea, and Haverhill. He now lives in Cambridge.
• His first Carcanet collection, Waiting for the Nightingale, was published in 2017.; Google Preview content