Small Hours

Offers a collection of lyrics and descriptive poems. 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: Lachlan Mackinnon
• | Publisher: Faber & Faber
• | Publication Date: Jan 21, 2010
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780571253500
• | ISBN-10: 0571253504