Fossil Unicorn [Paperback]

Sally Purcell (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0856462829 | ISBN-13: 978-0856462825 | Publication Date: November 6, 1997 | Edition: First Edition

"Fossil Unicorn" is Sally Purcell's first collection for more than ten years and contains the very best of her work from that period. Drawing on folklore and medieval sources, these poems are tense yet fluid in rhythm and diction, and alive with a sense of the numinous underlying the world of the senses. Critics of her first collection, "The Holly Queen", spoke of 'the ghostly music' and 'diamantine elegance' of her poetry. These qualities have remained constant in her later work, in which she continues to explore the mysteries of the quest through legend and myth.

Editorial Reviews

Review

15th Century Woodcut
Aeneid Vi
After Amairgen
After Crinagoras
And You Shall Find All True But The Wild Iland
As The Wind Of Springtime Touches Her
At Night The Snow Is Blue
Autocrat Of The Subtle Undereground World
Be Not Afeared
Breathing The Golden Darkness
Cranae
A Deep-sea Fisherman Hauls Up
Dr Dee
Easter
Elizabeth Of Bohemia
Grey Flames Roll & Drum
He Turns From The Narrow Isle
I'll Sing You Seven Seas
January 10, 1984
Landsmen For An Old Crime
Lie Gently In
Linquenda Tellus
Merlin's Time Will Return
Moor, Mound & Crag
My Heart That Wanders In Your Forest
On Propertius Iv.7
Out From The Moon's Hillside
Out From Time's Tumulus
Poem For Lent Or Advent
The Rain
Rational Skeleton In The Green Tomb
Receding Into Mist
Robert Kirk
The Scapegoat Old Year
Sestina For Two Voices
Seven Horizon Poems: 1
Seven Horizon Poems: 2. Based On Fernando Pessoa
Seven Horizon Poems: 3
Seven Horizon Poems: 4
Seven Horizon Poems: 5. Lorenzo Magnificent, Probably 1480s
Seven Horizon Poems: 6
Seven Horizon Poems: 7
Shadowless Air, Unchanging Season
A Small Wind Is Fidgeting
Spider
Starting Out From The Latitude Of Byzantium
To Thomas Cavalieri
Tomis, December
Valentine
Wind-scattered Leaves
Wyatt
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

`Miss Purcell is masterly in her handling of myth and ancient history' --Elizabeth Jennings

Review

`[The Holly Queen] is a miracle of chaste perfection'

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Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd; First Edition edition (November 6, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0856462829
• ISBN-13: 978-0856462825
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,901,815 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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