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SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION

In Auguries of a Minor God, her outstanding debut collection, Eipe sings of joys and wounds felt deeply under the skin' David Wheatley, Guardian

Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe's spellbinding debut poetry collection explores love and the wounds it makes. Its first half is composed of five sections, corresponding to the five arrows of Kama, the Hindu God of Love, Desire and Memory. From ''stunning'' and ''paralysing'' to ''killing'' and ''destroying'', each arrow has its own effect on some body a very real, contemporary body and its particular journey of love.

The second is a long narrative poem, A is for [Arabs]', which follows a different kind of journey: a family of refugees who have fled to the West from conflict in an unspecified Middle Eastern country. With an extraordinary structure, yoking abecedar

Auguries of a Minor God

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 7 January 2021
      ISBN-13 9780571365562
      978-0571365562
      ISBN-10 0571365566
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
      SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE
      POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION

      In Auguries of a Minor God, her outstanding debut collection, Eipe sings of joys and wounds felt deeply under the skin' David Wheatley, Guardian

      Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe's spellbinding debut poetry collection explores love and the wounds it makes. Its first half is composed of five sections, corresponding to the five arrows of Kama, the Hindu God of Love, Desire and Memory. From ''stunning'' and ''paralysing'' to ''killing'' and ''destroying'', each arrow has its own effect on some body a very real, contemporary body and its particular journey of love.

      The second is a long narrative poem, A is for [Arabs]', which follows a different kind of journey: a family of refugees who have fled to the West from conflict in an unspecified Middle Eastern country. With an extraordinary structure, yoking abecedar

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