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The News

‘The news’ can mean many things, but first and foremost in this collection the news is — We’re having a baby! Starting in the fifth week of his wife’s pregnancy, Rob Taylor wrote a poem every week as they travelled toward their child’s birth. His poems anticipate the astonishing and yet commonplace beginning of a human life, but they also explore how a baby’s arrival streams into both the incessant chatter of the world’s daily news and into that other sort of news that literature carries — what Ezra Pound called “news that stays news”.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 64
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781554471645
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2016