Prince Rupert's Drop

by Jane Draycott

Poetry Book Society Recommendation
'Prince Rupert's drop', a rare curiosity of the glass-making process, is a tear of glass at once immensely resilient yet spectacularly fragile, exploding dramatically when shattered. This tension - between the present beauty and the sense of inevitable loss inherent in the things we most admire - is a key to many of the poems in Jane Draycott's work, particularly to the long central poem 'Braving the Dark', written...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903039754
• ISBN13: 9781903039755
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 56 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.3" x 8.5"