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The Gamekeeper: Selected Poems 1976 - 2011
Author: Michael Harris
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In The Gamekeeper, Michael Harris presents poems of sorrow, sensuality, quirkiness and humoura grand variety of takes on the mortal landscape. With sharp wit and unaffected music, Harris handles the human and natural worlds with equal sensitivity. Of an apple tree, for instance, he says, and the apple trees victory stays stiff-necked, full of thrash in its iron-bare head of black antler. Considering Emily Dickinson in a poem entitled Death, we are drawn into the protagonists world with Weathered billet-doux hang pinned in the sheen of black crepe that encloses her looking-glass like a wreath of wet seaweed. The Gamekeeper contains a selection of poetry spanning five collections and over four decades, revealing the full range of one of the finest poets of his generation.
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In The Gamekeeper, Michael Harris presents poems of sorrow, sensuality, quirkiness and humoura grand variety of takes on the mortal landscape. With sharp wit and unaffected music, Harris handles the human and natural worlds with equal sensitivity. Of an apple tree, for instance, he says, and the apple trees victory stays stiff-necked, full of thrash in its iron-bare head of black antler. Considering Emily Dickinson in a poem entitled Death, we are drawn into the protagonists world with Weathered billet-doux hang pinned in the sheen of black crepe that encloses her looking-glass like a wreath of wet seaweed. The Gamekeeper contains a selection of poetry spanning five collections and over four decades, revealing the full range of one of the finest poets of his generation.
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