Blizzard
About this book
Winner of the Southern Arts Prize and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
The poems in Matthew Francis's first collection range from the light-hearted to the unsettling, from lyrical and witty evocations of landscape and domestic life to narratives of apocalypse and surreal fantasy. Night and winter provide the dominant metaphors, but, from this material, Francis, whose technical adroitness and flair for storytelling are equally remarkable, conjures up a substantial imaginative world in which it is possible to live with a renewed sense of freedom.
Dark, dangerous and exhilarating,
Blizzard reveals a fully mature and compelling talent.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Beestorm in West Middlesex
- After the Bee
- A Blind Man in the Forest
- Again
- Diversion
- From a High Place
- Tuba Mirum
- Poem Without Words
- The Guest
- Poem Found in a Box of Indoor Fireworks
- Winter City
- Cirrus Day
- Occupied City
- Friday Street
- Winter Road
- Power Cut
- In the Birds’ Wood
- The Inferno of Ascupart Street
- Notes for a Nightingale
- A Nocturnal
- Outside My Window
- Where You Are
- Chasak
- Towards Midnight
- Small Hours
- Blizzard
- About the Author
- Also by the Author
- Copyright
