The Malarkey

by Helen Dunmore

The malarkey is over in the back of the car - As soon as you turn your back, time slips. The humdrum present has become the precious, irrecoverable past. The ways in which the present longs for the past, questions it, tries to get in touch with it and stretches the power of memory to its limits, are central to this new collection by Helen Dunmore. Joseph Severn recalls Keats hurling a bad dinner out onto the steps of the Piazza di Spagna; the glamour...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852249404
• ISBN13: 9781852249403
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 71 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"