The Twelfth of Never by Ciaran Carson
The Twelfth of Never, which comprises seventy-seven sonnets written in alexandrines, floats on (or submerges in) the ideal republic or the Otherworld promised in fairy stories, aislings, the land of Cockaigne, lines of cocaine, drunkenness, the land of the green rose, poppy-day imperialism, Loyalist and Fenian ballads, and the rhetoric of July 12thall realms of or tickets to Utopia. The combination of pleasant, even rollicking, conveyanceiambs and anapests, disguised rhymes, lilting linesand sinister endings evokes certain kinds of fairy stories, such as E. T. A. Hoffmann s.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780916390846 |
| ISBN 10 | 0916390845 |
| Title | The Twelfth of Never |
| Author | Ciaran Carson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wake Forest University Press |
| Year published | 1998-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 91 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |