Research Catalog

Title

The barking thing / Suzanne Batty.

Author

Batty, Suzanne.

Publication

Tarset, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books ; [Chester Springs, PA : U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions], 2007.

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Details

Description

64 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

In Suzanne Batty's collection of poems, the real and the unreal are deliberately confused. Her writing balances on a sharp edge between sanity and madness, from mental anguish to spiritual joy.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Shrink -- Sisters and twins -- A lesson in twins -- Daddy's smoking on the monstrous arms of a cloud -- Moving -- Doll -- Dog has risen -- Only animals -- Last day, Llanbedrog -- My mother's house -- Natasha's house -- Natasha's shoes -- Ice-axe -- Apricot -- Federico plays dead -- What happened -- My lover with her long hair -- Thomas in the garden -- Amsterdam with Lottie -- This horse -- Back there -- Handkerchief -- Horizontal -- Coastal park, August -- Small poem -- Making something of it -- Say -- Dog's gift -- Night in the Dayroom -- Paper baby -- Dog and the bad dream -- Spell for most occasions -- Feeling better -- Allotted -- Lev. I-VIII -- Shutter speed -- Red house -- Mattress Man -- Esta noche -- The possum-hunter's lover -- This way -- Hilbre Island -- The little people -- A perfectly ordinary soldier -- Trench -- Field -- Borth y Gest -- Three colours only -- Of the backpack and the soul -- Red hen of Skye -- Dog at Glencoe -- Fish soup -- 2 A.M.

ISBN

• 9781852247720 (pbk.)
• 185224772X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008353883

OCLC

• 85898431
• SCSB-11760780

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library