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Tony Connor's tenth collection is framed by military encounters. In the first poem a young man grapples with a malfunctioning machine-gun, while the author grapples with the poem he is making from this event, memory or fantasy. In the surrealistic sequence that ends the book, a strange army invades a country collapsing into societal and semantic dissolution. Connor's abiding preoccupations continue into his eighties: his own life and the lives around him, passing time and its traps, poetry and its transfiguration of the commonplace. Yet all is not solemn as Connor extends his range into comic verse and dramatic dialogue. His new poems mix fantasy and reality in unexpected ways, always with the unobtrusive hand of a skilled craftsman.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Empty Air
• Author: Tony Connor
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780856464539
• ISBN: 0856464538
• ID: 02010385
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 192 g
• Dimensions: 220 × 150 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. September 2013

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