The Faber Book of Drink, Drinkers and Drinking
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The Faber Book of Drink, Drinkers and Drinking by Simon Rae
Alcohol is mankind's favourite drug. Tipple, red-eye, poison, mother's ruin, mud in your eye, juice, sauce, a shot of the hard stuff and plonk - all of these terms are included in this anthology of nips and draughts of every intoxicant in the thesaurus - and then some more - with swigs and gulps from Rabelais, Homer, the Bible, Chaucer, Dickens, Kingsley Amis, Gavin Ewart, Wendy Cope and Seamus Heaney.
Simon Rae won the National Poetry Competition in 1999, having twice been a runner-up. He has also won a major Gregory Award and a Southern Arts Literature Bursary. For ten years he wrote a regular topical poem for The Guardian. Rae presented Radio 4 s Poetry Please for five years. His poems have appeared in a variety of publications including the TLS, Observer, New Statesman, Poetry Review and London Magazine. He has held Royal Literary Fund fellowships at both Warwick and Oxford Brookes universities and was also poet in residence at Warwickshire County Cricket Club.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571162291 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571162290 |
| Title | The Faber Book of Drink, Drinkers and Drinking |
| Author | Simon Rae |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 1991-11-18 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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