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Nights in the Iron Hotel
About this book
Michael Hofmann, a much-praised contributor to
Poetry Introduction 5, was born in Germany in 1957 but brought up in Britain.
Nights in the Iron Hotel, which won the author a Cholmondeley Award in 1984, is his first full-length volume. Hofmann's poems are marked by a classical authority, a formidable ironic intelligence, wide-ranging subject matter and a unique tone of voice. 'You move the fifty-seven muscles it takes to smile,'
Hofmann writes in a poem whose subject is sexual tension - and immediately the reader recognises a world in which emotions are not the usual poetic counters but something truer, more complex and more painful. This quality of disenchantment is served by a deceptively laconic style of measured
brio.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Looking at You (Caroline)
- Dependants
- Diablerie
- Day in the Netherlands
- Touring Company
- First Night
- Miracles of Science
- A Feminist Ballet
- Museum Piece
- Mannequin
- Entropy (The Late Show)
- In Connemara
- Extinction
- Myopia in Rupert Brooke Country
- White Noise
- Hausfrauenchor
- In the Amazon
- Pavement Artistes
- Gruppenbild ohne Dame
- Family Holidays
- The Magic of Mantovani
- Boys’ Own
- Universal Uncles
- Young Werther
- Migrations of an Older Romantic
- The Nomad, my Father
- Love on the Rocks
- Lord B. and Others
- By Forced Marches
- l’an trentiesme de son eage
- Shapes of Things
- Fürth i. Wald
- On Fanø
- Fates of the Expressionists
- A Western Pastoral
- Nights in the Iron Hotel
- Tales from Chekhov
- Monsters of the Deep
- De-militarized Zone
- Body Heat
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright