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  A Stone Dog (Paperback) By (author) Aidan Semmens

  

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  Short Description for A Stone DogThirty-some years in journalism have left little obvious trace in Aidan Semmens's poetry- though, like his sports headlines, his verse is grounded in word-play and natural speech rhythms. In his first full-length collection he engages death, complexity, and the Authorised Version, which provides several of his titles.
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  • Publisher: Shearsman Books
  • Published: 15 May 2011
  • Format: Paperback 80 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9781848611658 ISBN 10: 184861165X
  • Sales rank: 547,508

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Full description for A Stone Dog

• Thirty-some years in journalism have left little obvious trace in Aidan Semmens's poetry-though, like the sports headlines he writes for the News of the World, his verse is grounded in word-play and natural speech rhythms. In his first full-length collection he engages death, complexity, and the Authorised Version, which provides several of his titles. Other sources for his language include news magazines, war diaries, popular science and psychology texts, overheard phrases and the 2001 Aldeburgh Festival programme. This is a poetry of ideas and allusions, where, as in music or dream, any hinted-at narrative is liable to be subverted, taken to unexpected ends.