Kona Macphee's What Long Miles is a characteristically eclectic collection from an ever-inventive writer, the winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for her previous collection, Perfect Blue. The poems range widely - nature and culture, body and psyche, the urban and the rural, the everyday and the revelatory - driven by a poetic sensibility both captivated by nuance and ever in search of essence. Woven throughout the collection's diversity of styles and subjects is the theme of human loneliness, a hurt that the poems touch on again and again, and for which there is no easy remedy. Whether it's a pitch-perfect formal poem, a darkly comic narrative or an achingly melancholic lyric, Kona Macphee's work displays her trademark technical panache and musician's deftness with the aural possibilities of language. The poems in What Long Miles exemplify her striking ability to blend hard-won emotional insight with a clear outward gaze and a deep, compassionate engagement with the world.
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What Long Miles
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Description
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Pheasant, Waverley Station
- Poem for Lily Song
- Mary Porter’s questions
- Shunned
- Prodigal
- An announcement
- Pageant
- My life as a B movie
- What the tabloids know:
- The Great Wave
- The pact
- The new order
- Dry country
- Inland
- The secret life of numbers
- Three sketches of a mandible
- George Pirie’s hands
- Meat
- The Wheelman
- Soldier and piano
- Scheele’s Green
- The exile
- from Football Creation Myths
- Savant, Ward 3B
- Singularity
- Against melancholy
- Six little unlove poems
- Wild raspberries
- Poem for a goodbye
- Rentboy
- Office Suite
- Tense
- How to fail
- Minifesto
- What it’s like
- Eightfold Garden Path
- The F word
- Antday
- Milestone
- dog
- encompass me, wild world –
- Recovery
- Aurora
- Gone
- Poem for Roy Batty
- The lamb
- The end of love
- Paschal
- Notes on the Poems
- About the Author
- Copyright
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