Napoleon's Travelling Bookshelf

by Sarah Hesketh

Highly Commended by The Forward Prize 2010

At once erudite, humourous and stylishly contemporary, Sarah Hesketh's debut collection invokes a world of frozen lakes, 'snow-spun streets' and people who have stayed too long.

With formal control and precise, crafted language, these poems examine the 'small relics of lives': china horses in an old people's home, a caged bird, the thighbone of a Saxon saint. Drawing from myth, history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0955384664
• ISBN13: 9780955384660
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Penned in the Margins
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"