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At a Stretch

At a Stretch

Ian Davidson

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Editorial:
Shearsman Books
Año de edición:
2004
Materia
Poesía
ISBN:
9780907562443
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The author’s second full-scale collection, following a series of fine chapbooks, and his largest collection so far. Ian Davidson is one of the most exciting and innovative English-language poets currently writing in Wales, and his radical engagement with landscape in these poems offers new ways of using and approaching landscape within the context of a poem.

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