The bestiary

Meekings, Sam (2008) The bestiary. Polygon, Edinburgh. ISBN 1846970466

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Abstract

"The textbook tells us that the frog lives a double life: between sea and land, between impossible distance and delayed arrival. See, those jumpy chubby reels of twitching slime, and this little pip below the chin; the first voice the universe heard, halved and inside-out." "The Bestiary" is an astonishing debut collection of lyrical, intelligent poems which challenge the ways in which we respond to the natural environment around us. With subjects that range from sea-bound eels, lost hedgehogs and lonely butchers to a 17th-century autopsy, Chinese mythology and the flight patterns of snow geese, Sam Meekings' poems explore both the instability and the small moments of epiphany in our complex and changing world.

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Book/Report/Proceedings
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”Shuttles between the natural, the philosophical, and the manufactured world, never missing a beat…my expectations are high for the future of Sam Meekings.” Edinburgh Review “Elemental, creaturely, intelligent, and utterly convincing. Nature is not just observed in these poems, but lived.” Douglas Dunn “A rather beautiful volume of verse.” The Lady
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65740
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19 Jul 2013 10:48
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