Description
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.
* Burrows is a doctor and former travel and fiction journalist at the New Statesman* Poems explore social class, nostalgia, ruminations on the external world, time and space, the envy of young people and the dislike of poetry!* 'If Catullus wrote for Vogue'* 'Unique among contemporary poets in not referring to Dante, hawks, or gardening tools.'* Winner of the Hippocrates competition for poetry and medicine
About the Author
Miles Burrows studied at Charterhouse and Wadham College Oxford. He read Russian in National Service, then Classics and Medicine. He worked as travel and fiction reviewer at the New Statesman and his poems appeared on radio and television. His first collection, A Vulture's Egg, was published by Cape and reviewed by John Carey. His work has been anthologised in British Poetry since 1945 (Penguin: ed. Lucie-Smith) and in Best Poems of the Year 2012 (Forward). He is a regular contributor to TLS, Poetry Review, and PN Review. He has worked as a doctor in New Guinea, Thailand, and Haverhill. He lives in Cambridge.
Reviews
'I'm proud to declare myself your fan. More a Mercedes than a minipoet.' Julian Mitchell; 'Your writing amused me greatly.' Anthony Powell
Book Information
ISBN 9781784103408
Author Miles Burrows
Format Paperback
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
* Burrows is a doctor and former travel and fiction journalist at the New Statesman* Poems explore social class, nostalgia, ruminations on the external world, time and space, the envy of young people and the dislike of poetry!* 'If Catullus wrote for Vogue'* 'Unique among contemporary poets in not referring to Dante, hawks, or gardening tools.'* Winner of the Hippocrates competition for poetry and medicine
About the Author
Miles Burrows studied at Charterhouse and Wadham College Oxford. He read Russian in National Service, then Classics and Medicine. He worked as travel and fiction reviewer at the New Statesman and his poems appeared on radio and television. His first collection, A Vulture's Egg, was published by Cape and reviewed by John Carey. His work has been anthologised in British Poetry since 1945 (Penguin: ed. Lucie-Smith) and in Best Poems of the Year 2012 (Forward). He is a regular contributor to TLS, Poetry Review, and PN Review. He has worked as a doctor in New Guinea, Thailand, and Haverhill. He lives in Cambridge.
Reviews
'I'm proud to declare myself your fan. More a Mercedes than a minipoet.' Julian Mitchell; 'Your writing amused me greatly.' Anthony Powell
Book Information
ISBN 9781784103408
Author Miles Burrows
Format Paperback
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
