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Douglas Dunn - Donkey's Ears, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

Donkey's Ears

Av Douglas Dunn

Del i serien Faber & Faber

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A wonderfully sustained narrative poem, full of the resonances and repercussions attendant on the end of an era, The Donkey's Ears depicts life aboard a Russian flagship just before the battle of Tsushima, 1905. It purports to be written by E.S. Politovsky, a ship's engineer addressing his wife in letters back home. Known as 'The Trafalgar of the East', Tsushima (which, translated from the Japanese, means 'The Donkey's Ears' - a description of the twin peaks of the islands) was the biggest naval gun-battle in history. The action of the poem takes place before the battle. A vividly realized claustrophobia prevails. Life below and on deck is brilliantly detailed as is the sense of incipient doom; one man's voice (domestic, particular, yearning for wife and home comforts) pitched against the inexorable onslaught of events.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2000-05-08
  • Mått: 128 x 198 x 15 mm
  • Vikt: 220 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Faber & Faber
  • Antal sidor: 160
  • Förlag: Faber & Faber
  • ISBN: 9780571204267
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Douglas Dunn (1942-2026) was born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. His first book of poems, Terry Street, was published to critical acclaim in 1969, and he went on to publish many further collections, including Elegies (1985), which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award; New Selected Poems (2003); and The Noise of a Fly (2017), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. He also published two collections of short stories and was a writer of radio and television plays. He was a leading figure in Scottish literature, a Professor at the University of St Andrews and founding director of the Scottish Studies Centre. His awards include an OBE in 2003 and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. His Collected Poems will be published in 2027.

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