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In his third collection of poetry, The Grammar of Distance, Ian Burgham writes from his gut and his heart. His imagery is, by turns, sensuous and rough-hewn, soft and hard. The poems crackle with sonic energy; they whinny and stamp. They whistle in the dark. His poetic landscapes frequent the windswept coasts of Scotland; but in this collection, we also find him doing terribly Canadian things like snowshoeing, surveying, chopping wood. Sometimes Al Purdy can be heard in Burgham's voice and, occasionally, Patrick Lane. His penchant for storytelling and Celtic elegiac moods makes him a solid candidate for the position of poetic counterpart to Alistair MacLeod. Like all strong poets, Burgham's imagination breaks past borders. Tribal and intense, his poems are conversations with loved ones, lost ones, and all the poets with storms in their bones. They are feisty. They rant. They grieve. They celebrate. Burgham is a thinker, a philosophical poet, a restless soul who asks big questions.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Grammar of Distance
• Author: Ian Burgham
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9781926639093
• ID: 05030954
• Publisher: Tightrope Books
• Weight: 231 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 168 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. April 2010

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