From The Neanderthal
  • Published: 15 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9780224090889
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $25.00

From The Neanderthal

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The poems in Adam Thorpe's latest collection are concerned with the continuum between two worlds: the lived present and the felt past. With the attentive care of an archaeologist he uncovers and examines fragments - from a personal history or the historic past - and rebuilds the narrative: a fossil in Hitler's stadium, a wedding photograph, marks on the wall where an eighteenth-century priest was shot. With formal dexterity and rhythmic assurance, these versatile, subtle poems investigate the vertiginous dynamic of history - where a shard of stone stands for civilisation, where a silver of memory becomes a life re-lived. After nine years, during which time he has emerged as one of Britain's most powerful and innovative novelists, Adam Thorpe now returns - triumphantly - to poetry.
  • Published: 15 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9780224090889
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $25.00
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About the author

Adam Thorpe

Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992 and he has published two books of stories and ten further novels, most recently Missing Fay (2017), and six poetry collections.


www.adamthorpe.net

Also by Adam Thorpe

Words From the Wall
Missing Fay
Flight
Voluntary
The Standing Pool
Hodd
Between Each Breath
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Praise for From The Neanderthal

Writer with exceptional gifts.

Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

Verve and intelligence... a beauty of feeling and language.

Douglas Dunn, Evening Standard

Excellent... Thorpe's poems are finely scored for the voice, but they go beyond the recognisable into the mystical.

Peter Porter, Observer

Erudite, observant, an artist with the language.

Martyn Crucefix, Poetry Review

It's hard to imagine greater skill or concision... There are never going to be many poets in any generation who leave you strapped for superlatives; excitingly, Thorpe is one of them.

Robert Ports, Literary Review