Product Description

Crocodiles and obelisks are ancient symbols of empire. The poems in Jamie McKendrick's astonishing new collection sift the debris of power and range from Mussolini's Italy and Franco's Spain to the Belgian Congo and to the Roman, the Austro-Hungarian and British empires. But 'crocodiles' and 'obelisks' are also terms used for newspaper obituaries - for tributes which either monumentalize the dead or shed false tears for them. "Crocodiles & Obelisks" is McKendrick's most individual work to date, and experiments with different ways of remembering, offering conclusions that are both cunning and drole.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56531 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 64 pages

About the Author
Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955 and now lives in Oxford. He is the author of four collections of poetry: The Sirocco Room (1991); The Kiosk on the Brink (1993); The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and a Poetry Book Society Choice; and Ink Stone (2003).