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The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. As one expert writes, ''the better the stone, the smaller and more consistent the particles will be and the denser the ink.'' These new poems by Jamie McKendrick have a remarkable density of ink. They explore the grain, or ''tooth'', of the natural world with unusual and discomforting detail at the same time as they chart the medium they work in - not only what the eye sees, but the eye itself: its structure and structurings. These poems open onto conflicting perspectives of home and abroad, the domestic and the wild, the natural and the uncanny, elegy and celebration.

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"Acclaim for his previous collection, The Marble Fly (1997): 'Consistently excellent... where McKendrick scores is in his expert salvaging of beauty from squalor, wit from adversity, delicacy from grossness.' Michael Hofmann

Ink Stone Faber Poetry

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 20 January 2003
      ISBN-13 9780571215324
      978-0571215324
      ISBN-10 0571215327

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. As one expert writes, ''the better the stone, the smaller and more consistent the particles will be and the denser the ink.'' These new poems by Jamie McKendrick have a remarkable density of ink. They explore the grain, or ''tooth'', of the natural world with unusual and discomforting detail at the same time as they chart the medium they work in - not only what the eye sees, but the eye itself: its structure and structurings. These poems open onto conflicting perspectives of home and abroad, the domestic and the wild, the natural and the uncanny, elegy and celebration.

      Trade Review
      "Acclaim for his previous collection, The Marble Fly (1997): 'Consistently excellent... where McKendrick scores is in his expert salvaging of beauty from squalor, wit from adversity, delicacy from grossness.' Michael Hofmann

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