Sian Hughes

The Missing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

These poems are clear, direct and emotional. They do not hide behind imagery, but head right for the heart of shame, laying bare the terrors of parenting, loss, regret, and falling in love with the wrong people.

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Produktdetails

• Salt Modern Poets
• Verlag: Salt Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 141mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 122g
• ISBN-13: 9781844717767
• ISBN-10: 1844717763
• Artikelnr.: 28995768

Autorenporträt

Siân Hughes is a lone parent who lives in the middle of nowhere with her two young children and works part time as a teacher and in a book shop /cafe. In 2006 she won the Arvon International Poetry Competition with The Send Off, an elegy for her third child.

Inhaltsangabe

The Double at Highbury
Catalogue
Secret Lives
The Girl Upstairs
Taxi
The Greedy Man
Easy
Noises Off
The Sacking Offence
Sleepwalker
Saltpetre
Fidelity
The Stairs
Shikseh
Propaganda
Results
You're
The Night Bus
Everybody Knows
Cursing the Holy Ghost
Country Compilation
Cartoon
Delivery
Flood
Electricity
Aitken Drum
Mengy Babies
Fireworks on Ward 4C
Dyslexic
My Children
Bear-Awareness and Self-Defence Classes
The Fight
Superking 6 x 6
Xperiment!
Sleep Training
The Send-Off
Sweet Ghost
Storm Clouds
Humpty Dumpty (Egg, or Gun)
The Missing
Nativity
The Return
Magnetic Fish
I Turn Forty
What If
Your Advice
Delete
The Places for Crying
Broken Sonnet
The Theories
Falling for Elvis