- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd (27 April 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 185754966X
- ISBN-13: 978-1857549669
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.5 x 0.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,056,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'The Domino Hymn' rages movingly against the dying of the light, covering heroic distances and charting epic struggles in the space of eighteen unflinching and atmospheric pages. Grey Gowrie's poems - utterly free from any querulous or self-pitying role - touch the reader's own heart as they give voice to the 'poor, bare, forked' individuals who are enmeshed in the tubes and wires of machine-age medicine.' - Times Literary Supplement.
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"Third Day" is a selection from the poems Grey Gowrie has written between 1958 and the present day. At the centre of the book is the sequence "The Domino Hymn: Poems from Harefield", first published to great acclaim in 2005. This work draws on the best part of a year spent in hospital when the author, dying of a virus on the heart, was jolted back to life and writing by the surgical gift of a heart from a living donor. "Marches", poems of the post-operative years, follows, inspired by the country between England and Wales and the borderlands we all occupy between being and non-being. The book ends with "From Primrose Hill", a meditation on contemporary London.
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