Nominies by Ian Duhig
Ian Duhigs most musical collection gets off to a rollicking start with his phantasmagorical ballad Nominies, which takes its title from a Yorkshire word meaning childrens chants. This tour de force sets up the books themes of inherited treachery and formal engagement. Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.
Duhig telescopes topical allusions, scholarly references and coarse humour into tightly-shaped, surreal poems which burst open with explosive moral force-- Alan Brownjohn * Sunday Times *
Born in 1954, Ian Duhig was the eighth of eleven children born to Irish parents with a liking for poetry. He has won the National Poetry Competition twice, and also the Forward Prize for Best Poem; his collection, The Lammas Hireling (2003) was a Poetry Book Society Choice, and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize for Best Collection. Chosen as a New Generation Poet in 1994, he has received Arts Council and Cholmondeley Awards, and has held various Royal Literary Fund fellowships at universities including Lancaster, Durham, Newcastle and his own alma mater, Leeds. His first three collections were published by Bloodaxe: The Bradford Count (1991), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award, The Mersey Goldfish (1995), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and Nominies (1998), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852244576 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852244577 |
| Title | Nominies |
| Author | Ian Duhig |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1998-06-18 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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