Waiting for the Nightingale by Miles Burrows

Waiting for the Nightingale by Miles Burrows

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Waiting for the Nightingale by Miles Burrows

Poems which explore the relationship between love, women, and metaphysics
'I'm proud to declare myself your fanMore a Mercedes than a minipoet.' Julian Mitchell; 'Your writing amused me greatly.' Anthony Powell
Miles Burrows studied at Charterhouse and Wadham College Oxford. He read Russian in National Service, then Classics and Medicine. He worked as travel and fiction reviewer at the New Statesman and his poems appeared on radio and television. His first collection, A Vulture’s Egg, was published by Cape and reviewed by John Carey. His work has been anthologised in British Poetry since 1945 (Penguin: ed. Lucie-Smith) and in Best Poems of the Year 2012 (Forward). He is a regular contributor to TLS, Poetry Review, and PN Review. He has worked as a doctor in New Guinea, Thailand, and Haverhill. He lives in Cambridge.
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ISBN 13 9781784103408
ISBN 10 1784103403
Title Waiting for the Nightingale
Author Miles Burrows
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published 2017-04-27
Number of pages 94
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