Dragons by Matthew Francis
With this second collection Matthew Francis fulfilled all the promise of his first, Blizzard. His teasing out of the bizarre or esoteric leads to a world populated with dragons, devils, butterflies, and a whole ocean full of creatures from whales and cuttlefish to the denizens of deep-sea hydrothermal vents. But strangest of all are the human beings - the ecstasies and indignities of their sexual rites of passage, the routine craziness of their dream lives, the frantic and sometimes terrible adventures of recent and not-so-recent history.
Matthew Francis is the author of four Faber collections, most recently Muscovy (2013). He has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and in 2004 was chosen as one of the Next Generation poets. He has also edited W. S. Graham's New Collected Poems, and published a collection of short stories and two novels, the second of which, The Book of the Needle (Cinnamon Press), came out in 2014. He lives in West Wales and is Professor in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571206667 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571206662 |
| Title | Dragons |
| Author | Matthew Francis |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2001-02-19 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 2001 |
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