Muscovy
eBook - ePub

Muscovy

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Muscovy

About this book

Like his acclaimed Mandeville (2008), Matthew Francis's fourth Faber collection explores a world of marvels, real and fantastic. A man takes off for the moon in an engine drawn by geese, a poltergeist moves into a remote Welsh village, and a party of seventeenth-century Englishmen encounter the wonders of Russia - sledges, vodka, skating and Easter eggs. The scientist Robert Boyle basks in the newly discovered radiance of phosphorus (the noctiluca of the title) and the theme of light in darkness is taken up by the more personal poems in the book: phoneboxes, streetlamps, moonlight. The joys of the world and of the imagination find their equivalent in Francis's joy in the possibilities of language:

'A basket of snow for the Empress / with a poem of
modest triumph: / I made this out of what does not last.'

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780571297368
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. The Man in the Moon
  7. Noctiluca
  8. Corpse Candle
  9. Walker
  10. Familiar Spirit
  11. Cwm Elan
  12. Muscovy
  13. Macros
  14. Sea at Low Tide
  15. Poem in Sea
  16. Foggy Beach
  17. Enigma Variations
  18. Perec Suite
  19. Things That Make the Heart Beat Faster
  20. Nocturnes
  21. Was
  22. Phonebox Elegy
  23. Moth
  24. What Rain Means
  25. Streetlamps
  26. Untitled
  27. About the Author
  28. By the Same Author
  29. Copyright

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