Lachlan MacKinnon’s fourth collection opens with a gathering of lyrics and descriptive poems: observing rites of passage (elegies, wedding poems), offering nuanced accounts of places and their patchwork afterlives (the Midlands, a Suffolk sketchbook), or meditations on historical figures introspectively at odds with their time (King Canute, Edward Thomas). This preoccupation with contingency – personal and historical – opens onto The Book of Emma: a long poem of fifty-four sections, written mostly in prose, which address a lost friend and contemporary in terms which seem laconically factual, but which draw their power from archaic conventions (Egyptian, Celtic) of talking to the dead.

Author: Mackinnon, Lachlan
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Small Hours
Pages: 00000 (Encrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2011-04-21
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780571253500
Category: Non-Classifiable : Non-Classifiable
Category: Poetry : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh