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Points for a Compass Rose

Points for a Compass Rose

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(19 Nov 1992)

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Publisher's Synopsis

In this collection of poems, the author meditates on the follies, cruelties and frailties of humankind adopting an outraged, vehement and sardonic tone as he gazes through his "teleidoscope" - an instrument for viewing the images of the ends of things.

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Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9780099871002
Publisher: Vintage
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
Edition: New Edition
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 192g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm