Description
Title: Shoulder Tap
Author: Maurice Riordan
ISBN: 9780571367115
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2021
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher :
Riordan’s fifth collection of poems is both a dark art and an illuminating interrogation of contemporary anxiety and Riordan’s keenly anticipated new collection continues his agile exploration of time, both in its depredations and rewards, while also bringing a sceptical, enquiring intelligence to bear on the anxieties and vanities of our age. Here we have disquieting songs of a mutable self; a projected online deathbed confession; the soul haranguing the body; while encounters with ghostly feet and tongues of fire consort with riffs on Baudelaire, Rilke and Old English. These poems pulse with mischief and macabre humor, making for a pungent and haunting read. With this book, Riordan – a poet whose subtle, rippling influence is felt by all in his wake – affirms the Guardian‘s assessment of The Water Stealer (2013) as strong, wise and enduring.
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