Author:Roger McGough
In this evocative and personal collection of poems Roger McGough comes to terms with painful memories as well as confronting fears that are universal. Here he remembers his father in ‘Squaring Up’ and ‘Alphabet Soup’; observes the eccentricities of contemporary life in ‘The City of London Tour’; gives insights into human feeling with the surreal ‘Your Favourite Hat’ and the moving elegy ‘Defying Gravity’; and muses on writing itself with ‘Word Trap’ and ‘The Darling Buds of Maybe’. There are even witty poems dedicated to the chemical elements. Blending the everyday and the magical, his verses sparkle with verbal dexterity, irreverent humour, irony and heartfelt compassion.
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—— Lisa Cunningham , New York TimesSheer unbeatable entertainment
—— CosmopolitanStrikingly effective
—— The TimesA brutal, harrowing, desperately sincere piece of writing
—— Sunday TimesImpressive . . . Rutherfurd has indeed embraced all of Russia
—— The Washington PostRusska succeeds where [other books] of trendy Soviet-watching have failed ... Rutherfurd can take his place among an elite cadre of chroniclers such as Harold Lamb, Maurice Hindus and Henri Troyat
—— San Francisco ChronicleFast moving ... Rutherfurd believes in adding color and adventure to facts that are exhaustively researched, making history palatable if not delicious
—— Milwaukee Journal SentinelSprawling ... Rutherfurd's close observation of Russia's religious and ethnic diversity gives this epic a distinctive flavor
—— Publishers WeeklyRutherfurd literally personifies history
—— New York Daily News
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