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Doves is Lachlan Mackinnon's most candid and affecting volume of poems to date, and follows on from Small Hours, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry in 2010. Formally dexterous and inventive, these inclusive, approachable poems welcome all-comers in their broad-minded address: refugees, reality television, detective shows, number-theory, Shakespeare's brothers, ecology, a marriage.

Wherever it turns, the poetry remains courageously sociable and moral, ever concerned with honouring lives and good deeds, and asking what can be saved from the ruins of what is lost by individuals, cultures and civilisations. But for all its outward gaze, its cares speak privately too of crises in personal action and belief, of friends and intimacies disturbed and renewed and, underpinning it all, an urging to account for our behaviour and to start to answer / to ourselves for what we have made of life.'

Doves is an uplifting account of recovery that makes n

Doves

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 17 October 2019
      ISBN-13 9780571333325
      978-0571333325
      ISBN-10 057133332X
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      Book Synopsis

      Doves is Lachlan Mackinnon's most candid and affecting volume of poems to date, and follows on from Small Hours, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry in 2010. Formally dexterous and inventive, these inclusive, approachable poems welcome all-comers in their broad-minded address: refugees, reality television, detective shows, number-theory, Shakespeare's brothers, ecology, a marriage.

      Wherever it turns, the poetry remains courageously sociable and moral, ever concerned with honouring lives and good deeds, and asking what can be saved from the ruins of what is lost by individuals, cultures and civilisations. But for all its outward gaze, its cares speak privately too of crises in personal action and belief, of friends and intimacies disturbed and renewed and, underpinning it all, an urging to account for our behaviour and to start to answer / to ourselves for what we have made of life.'

      Doves is an uplifting account of recovery that makes n

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