Birds With A Broken Wing

Adam Thorpe

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Beschreibung

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...

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