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008			161122s2017 enk 000 p eng d
010			_a 2017434820
020			_a9781509824199 (pbk.) _qpaperback
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn980135049
040			_aYDX _beng _cJKRC Social Science Complex. _erda _dOCLCO _dNYP _dOCLCF _dNZAUC _dDLC
082	0	4	_a821.92 _223 _bOSM
100	1		_aOsmond, Richard. _d1987- _eauthor. _919590
240	1	0	_aPoems. _kSelections
245	1	0	_aUseful verses / _cby Richard Osmond.
264		1	_aLondon : _bPicador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, _c2017.
300			_a64 pages ; _c20 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aPicador Poetry
520			_a"Richard Osmond's debut collection Useful Verses follows in the tradition of the best nature writing, being as much about the human world as the natural, the present as the past: Osmond, a professional forager, has a deep knowledge of flora and fauna as they appear in both natural and human history, as they are depicted in both folklore and herbal - but he views them through a wholly contemporary lens. Chamomile is discussed through quantum physics, ants through social media, wood sorrel through online gambling, and mugwort through a traffic cone. In each case, Osmond offers an arresting and new perspective, and makes that hidden world that lives and breathes beside us vividly part of our own. This is a fiercely inventive, darkly witty and brilliantly observed debut from a voice unlike any other you have read before - and as far from any quaint and conservative notion of 'nature poetry' as it is possible to get. "--bookdepository.com.
650		0	_aNature _vPoetry. _919591
653			_aNature
655		4	_aEnglish poetry _y21st century. _919592
830		0	_aPicador poetry. _919593
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