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Whale Day
- Author
- Billy Collins
- Narrator
- Billy Collins
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 30 September 2021
- Run Time
- 1 hour 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
‘Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising – the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He’s a one-off, an American treasure’ Nick Laird
These are poems of whimsy and imaginative acrobatics, but they are grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the proper way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and invites us to his own funeral. Facing both the wonders of being alive and the thrill of mortality, these new poems can only solidify Collins’s reputation as one of America’s most durable and interesting poets.
Critics Review
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A new collection from Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and 'America’s favorite poet'
The Wall Street Journal
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A writer . . . fully aware of his work’s power to delight
New York Times
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A poet of plentitude, irony, and Augustan grace
New Yorker
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Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in the world
Carol Ann Duffy
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Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising – the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins’ poem. He’s a one-off, an American treasure
Nick Laird
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Details
- Author
- Billy Collins
- Narrator
- Billy Collins
- Duration
- 1 hour 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 September 2021
- ISBN
- 9781529064551
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary poetry / poems, Poetry / poems by individual poets
Synopsis
‘Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising – the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He’s a one-off, an American treasure’ Nick Laird These are poems of whimsy and imaginative acrobatics, but they are grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the proper way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and invites us to his own funeral. Facing both the wonders of being alive and the thrill of mortality, these new poems can only solidify Collins’s reputation as one of America’s most durable and interesting poets.
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