Mischief

£9.95

Peter Bennet

Seventh collection from northern poet previously shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Glass Swarm (2008) – his first since his Bloodaxe retrospective Border (2013). Bennet has a following in the North-East.

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Description

Peter Bennet is a storyteller who reinvents the world each time he writes, and does so with linguistic resourcefulness and panache, bold imaginative strokes, subversive connections, and dark wit. He has also armed himself with a sophisticated dramatic understanding learned in part from Browning. The borders of the real and the imaginary are frequently breached here, but Mischief, which is his seventh full-length collection, also contains an uncharacteristically autobiographical and revealing sequence which revisits memories from between Bennet’s war-time early childhood and his father’s premature death in 1953. This writing is so careful, even compressed, that it feels distilled rather than made, having something of the purity and strength of a good single malt.

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Weight 132 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.8 × 0.7 cm
Author

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

80

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.914 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K