According to the Small Hours

Mathews, Aidan

ISBN 10: 0224051253 / ISBN 13: 9780224051255

Published by Jonathan Cape, 1998

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Synopsis:

In this, his first collection of poems in fifteen years, Aidan Mathews brings together the sacred and the profane, playful and profound, the iconic and the everyday - illuminating the variousness and commonality of human experience. These poems wear their erudition lightly: dazzling us with their fresh observations, the strangely intimate details ('mice among the breadcrumbs of the Last Supper') and a fluid, metaphysical wit that can link a saint's matyrdom to a Sunday roast.

Mercurial, passionate and always surprising, According to the Small Hours is a triumphant return to the form.

About the Author: Aidan Mathew's first book, published when he was twenty-one, was the colection of poems Windfalls. he had already won the Irish Times Award and the Patrick Kavanagh Award, and he went on to publish a second collection six years later, in 1983. Since then he has concentrated on drama and fiction - his first book of stories, Adventures in a Bathyscope, being shortlisted for the first GPA Award. The Italian edition of his Lipstick on the Host won the a Cavour Prize for Foreign Fiction.

Bibliographic Details

Title: According to the Small Hours
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good