The Movement of Bodies

By Sheenagh Pugh

A strange assortment of characters inhabit these poems, including George Mackay Brown, Johnny Cash, William Dampier, a lion-keeper in wartime Afganistan, and a shipload of sailors in a Shetland churchyard. The long central work of the collection provides an elegiac meditation on the life and death of a young soldier who succumbed to hypothermia during the Napoleonic Wars. Finally, and quite unexpectedly, the poem "Googlisms" provides an outpouring of quirky definitions from a website that collects information from the search engine Google.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854113763
• ISBN13: 9781854113764
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Seren Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.4"