The Zoo of the New - Nick Laird

'So open it anywhere then anywhere then anywhere again. We're sure it won't be long before you find a poem that brings you smack into the newness and strangeness of the living present' In The Zoo of the New poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird have cast a fresh eye over more than five centuries of verse from the English language and beyond. Above all they have sought poetry that retains in one way or another a powerful timelessness: words with the thrilling capacity to make the time and place in which they were written however distant and however foreign they may be feel utterly here and now in the 21st Century. This book stretches as far back as Sappho and as far forward as the recent award-winning work of Denise Riley taking in poets as varied as Thomas Wyatt Sylvia Plath William Shakespeare T. S. Eliot Frank O'Hara and Gwendolyn Brooks along the way. Here the mournful rubs shoulders with the celebratory; the skulduggerous and the foolish with the highfalutin; and tales of love loss and war with a menagerie of animals and objects from bee boxes to rubber boots a suit of armour and a microscope. Teeming with old favourites and surprising discoveries this lovingly selected compendium is sure to win lifelong readers.

TITLE: The Zoo of the New

AUTHOR: Nick Laird

SKU: 9780141392486

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 30/03/2016

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 512

BINDING: Hardback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 144 mm x 222 mm x 43 mm

WEIGHT: 658 gr