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Auguries of a Minor God
- Author
- Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe
- Narrator
- Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 29 June 2021
- Run Time
- 2 hours 55 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION
'In
Auguries of a Minor God, her outstandingdebut 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 abecedarian and Fibonacci sequences, it is a skilful and intimate account of migration and exile, of home and belonging.
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Details
- Author
- Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe
- Narrator
- Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe
- Duration
- 2 hours 55 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 June 2021
- ISBN
- 9780571367245
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary poetry / poems, Poetry / poems by individual poets
Synopsis
LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022 POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION 'In Auguries of a Minor God, her outstandingdebut 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 abecedarian and Fibonacci sequences, it is a skilful and intimate account of migration and exile, of home and belonging.
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