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This is a book of meetings. A mother meets her baby. A man steps into his childhood. An old man encounters Godfather Death. And in the persona of Harald Hardrada, a passionate man wrestles with his fantasies, and north meets south. Many of Kevin Crossley-Holland's beautifully wrought, often moving poems inhabit the crossing-places between actuality, memory and imagination; and invoking Orpheus and Atargatis, Pierre de Ronsard and Beethoven, they journey from Hades to a hellish warzone, and from the high Alps and to the creeks and saltmarshes of north Norfolk.

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'Crossley-Holland uncovers not only words but an entire landscape which haunts and is rich in echoes.' - HELEN DUNMORE, THE OBSERVER

The Breaking Hour

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    A Paperback / softback by Kevin Crossley-Holland

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      Publisher: Enitharmon Press
      Publication Date: 12/06/2015
      ISBN13: 9781910392096, 978-1910392096
      ISBN10: 191039209X
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      Book Synopsis
      This is a book of meetings. A mother meets her baby. A man steps into his childhood. An old man encounters Godfather Death. And in the persona of Harald Hardrada, a passionate man wrestles with his fantasies, and north meets south. Many of Kevin Crossley-Holland's beautifully wrought, often moving poems inhabit the crossing-places between actuality, memory and imagination; and invoking Orpheus and Atargatis, Pierre de Ronsard and Beethoven, they journey from Hades to a hellish warzone, and from the high Alps and to the creeks and saltmarshes of north Norfolk.

      Trade Review
      'Crossley-Holland uncovers not only words but an entire landscape which haunts and is rich in echoes.' - HELEN DUNMORE, THE OBSERVER

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