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Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9780224093590
Number of Pages: 176
Width: 13 cm
Height: 19.8 cm
Michael Symmons Roberts’ sixth – and most ambitious collection to date – takes its name from the ancient trade in powders, chemicals, salts and dyes, paints and cures. These poems offer a similarly potent and sensory multiplicity, unified through the formal constraint of 150 poems of 15 lines.

Michael Symmons Roberts

Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1963. He has published six collections of poetry and received a number of accolades including the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Award and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. As a librettist, his work has been performed in concert halls and opera houses around the world. An award-winning broadcaster and dramatist, he has published two novels, and is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

He displays an amazing talent for intimacy on paper - sometimes, it almost takes your breath away. -- Kate Kellaway * Observer * It's all implicit, subtle, hypnotic and often beautiful. * Monocle * 150 poems of 15 lines, combining dazzling elegance and a rare imaginative humility. -- Sean O'Brien * Independent * 150 poems of fifteen lines, tackling multiple subjects from peeling an orange to the universe's "scattergram of long-dead suns". Not a dud among them. -- Adam Thorpe * Times Literary Supplement * Roberts' most ambitious collection offers a potent and sensory multiplicity. * Good Book Guide *

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