by John Ash · Carcanet Pr · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780856354236
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«The Goodbyes» is a poetry collection by John Ash, published by Carcanet Pr in paperback (63 pages, in English).
The poems range between nostalgia and science fiction; there are sexual encounters embedded in updated fairy tales, portraits and ordinary scenes that lead into the astonishing. Music functions as a model rather than painting: broad rhythmic units, sonatas, rain, angels and distant puppet theatres emerging from cereal packets.
First edition. Published in 1982 by Carcanet New Press in Manchester. The work is organised in three parts (13, 8 and 6 poems) and was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Choice.
For readers of contemporary English poetry and twentieth-century British lyric.
