Elsewhere or Thereabouts

From Troy to Arcadia, on the high road to elsewhere and the low road to thereabouts, boarding a ferry 'cross the Mersey and hiking the Jurassic Coast, skating away on Duddingston Loch and dynamiting the frozen rivers of Siberia - Alasdair Paterson plots a course at the cruising speed of the flaneur through the ruins of empires and dreams.

Info autore

Alasdair Paterson was born in Edinburgh and now lives in Exeter. He won an Eric Gregory Award for his poetry in 1976; On the Governing of Empires was his his first collection for more than 20 years. The intervening time was spent directing the work of academic libraries in Britain and Ireland, and travelling to Samarkand, Salonika, Stamboul, Siberia, Swaziland, San Francisco, Sidmouth and many other places not beginning with an S. Since 'Empires' appeared Shearsman Books has released another three volumes of his work.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alasdair Paterson
• Editore: Shearsman Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.01.2014
• EAN: 9781848613270
• ISBN: 978-1-84861-327-0
• Pagine: 86
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 216 mm x 5 mm
• Peso: 121 g
• Categoria: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica