Birds With A Broken Wing

Adam Thorpe

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English

Jonathan Cape Ltd
15 May 2007

Poetry by individual poets; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A powerful fifth poetry collection coinciding with the publication of Adam Thorpe's novel, Between Each Breath.

Adam Thorpe's fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief - a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturnal path set against the 'insomniac' motorway; industrialised apples against wrinkled windfalls - his poems argue for bewilderment and 'the slight bruise of doubt'.

Whether walking an abandoned road or considering a friend's suicide, his poems remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history, with ourselves.

There are, however, all the vestiges of connective tissue - memories and mementoes, sudden, miraculous leaps of beauty. The book is full of such traces, delicate and fugitive- the poet's grandmother retrieved through her ninety-year-old bookmark of rose petals; the unvoiced suggestion of his mother's voice on an answerphone; the memory of a vanished native chief in a Canadian mountain's shadow...

By: Adam Thorpe
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 110g
ISBN: 9780224079440
ISBN 10: 0224079441
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 15 May 2007
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992, and he has published two books of stories, six poetry collections, and nine further novels, most recently Flight (2012). www.adamthorpe.net

Reviews for Birds With A Broken Wing

[He] writes like a man in love with language, with the sheer possibilities of words. His work is musical, brimming with slant rhyme and assonance, and also subtle in its effects -- Jane Yeh * Poetry Review * The essential element about Thorpe the poet is that he is unusual among many contemporaries for possessing a superbly honed ear for the cadences of language and speech -- David Morley * Guardian * Thorpe's poems are finely scored for the voice, but they go beyond the recognisable into the mystical -- Peter Porter * Observer * A writer with exceptional gifts -- Peter Kemp * Sunday Times * There are never going to be many poets in any generation who leave you strapped for superlatives; excitingly, Thorpe is one of them -- Robert Potts * Literary Review *