Sanctuary

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<p>In this, Matthew Sweeney's eighth full-length collection, the disarming fabulist and mythmaker steps out on his own into fresh territory. These are poems from a mapless journey through the backwaters of Europe and the New World - imbued, as always, with the strange, unerring logic of dream, but carrying now a new, fugitive, lyrical note. The sanctuary of the title is fragile and hard-won, and the complexities of the emotional life are written into the architecture of the physical, making for a poetry that is both vulnerable and disturbing.</p><p>Celebrated for his ability to blend the simple terror of folklore with the more sophisticated anxieties of Kafka and the contemporary, Sweeney moves through this book like a revenant - past monkeys dressed as doormen, through ice-hotels and showers of human hair, towards a scaffold or a lover. Obliquely sinister and wryly engaging, full of fright and grim hilarity, these are rootless poems - unsettled and unsettling, and very far from home.</p><p><b>A Poetry Book Society Recommendation.</b></p>

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Matthew Sweeney was born in Donegal. Apart from his poetry, he has written children's fiction and edited three anthologies,<i>Beyond Bedlam</i>(with Ken Smith),<i>Emergency Kit</i>(with Jo Shapcott) and the<i>New Faber Book of Children's Verse</i>. Cape published his<i>Selected Poems</i>in 2002 and<i>Black Moon</i>in 2007.

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