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You have no normal country to return to
By (author) Tom Sastry
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In You have no normal country to return to, Tom Sastry explores questions of national identity and ‘the end of history'. A blistering, bleakly funny and timely second poetry collection, following his Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize shortlisted, A Man's House Catches Fire. By turns crisply satirical and questioning, You have no normal country to return to ranges across the legacies of Empire, postwar migration and the current crisis in English identity. Sastry’s precise, brilliantly attuned poetry asks how the times we live in and the tales we tell about them affect us; how our emotional landscapes are shaped by national myths and the more personal stories we tell about ourselves. It is a book about illusion, and discovering, again and again, that what was once taken for granted was never really there; a guidebook for an age of “enchantments collapsing on themselvesâ€.
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Publisher | Nine Arches Press
Published date | 21 Apr 2022
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 72
Dimensions | 216 x 138 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 126g
ISBN | 978-1-9134-3734-3
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BISAC | poetry / general
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