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According to the Small Hours (Cape Poetry)

According to the Small Hours (Cape Poetry)

by Aidan Mathews (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $15.93
Synopsis

In this, his first collection of poems in fifteen years, Aidan Mathews brings together the sacred and the profane, playful and profound, the iconic and the everyday - illuminating the variousness and commonality of human experience. These poems wear their erudition lightly: dazzling us with their fresh observations, the strangely intimate details ('mice among the breadcrumbs of the Last Supper') and a fluid, metaphysical wit that can link a saint's matyrdom to a Sunday roast. Mercurial, passionate and always surprising, According to the Small Hours is a triumphant return to the form.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 80
 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Published: 15 Oct 1998
ISBN 10: 0224051253
ISBN 13: 9780224051255
Book Overview: 'Abundant, enthralling, often heartbreaking, According to the Small Hours makes its indelible mark as Aidan Mathews' triumphant return to poetry' - Michael Longley

Media Reviews
A unique talent -- John Banville
The commingling here of the sacred and the secular lexicons produces a powerful medicine, a haunted music. Mathews bides his time well between incarnations. These are poems worth waiting for, worth remembering, worth learning by heart -- Thomas Lynch
The most talented poet of his generation in Ireland -- Sebastian Barry
Dizzy and yet deliberate, devout but always streetwise, Aidan Mathews moves and startles us. These very clever, complicated poems challenge their own disenchantment and somehow maintain a religious sense of life -- Michael Longley
Author Bio
Aidan Mathew's first book, published when he was twenty-one, was the colection of poems Windfalls. he had already won the Irish Times Award and the Patrick Kavanagh Award, and he went on to publish a second collection six years later, in 1983. Since then he has concentrated on drama and fiction - his first book of stories, Adventures in a Bathyscope, being shortlisted for the first GPA Award. The Italian edition of his Lipstick on the Host won the a Cavour Prize for Foreign Fiction.