Uncommon Light.
by Emery., Brook
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0734037627
- ISBN 13
- 9780734037626
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK ?AUTHOR SIGNED,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Five Islands Press.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated, soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Single light crease to top rear corner. Seems lightly-used if at all. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Neat authors? signature to title page. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 72 pp. text.* Product Description:- Brook Emery?s poems are characteristically sophisticated meditations on the transformation of knowledge into wisdom. There is a strong narrative quality about many of the poems, and a philosophical temper embedded in a sense of the reality of the world? his poems have a polished elegance that combines love of nature and wonder at the artistic impulse that keeps us alive to the potential to behave in a civilised manner towards each other. He is a first-class craftsmen whose rhythms, like the flow of his language, seem effortless. Judges?comments, Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2004. This is Brook Emery?s fourth collection of poems the best known of which was ?Misplaced Heart? published in 2003.* This is a NEAR FINE, AUTHOR SIGNED copy of the 1st./1st. with minimal shelf wear.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3464
- Title
- Uncommon Light.
- Author
- Emery., Brook
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0734037627
- ISBN 13
- 9780734037626
- Publisher
- Five Islands Press Pty Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- 72
- Date Published
- 2007-01-01
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