Overview

Murder runs rampant in this spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadliest art. In forms as various as the melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard-boiled poems of twentieth-century noir, here are assembled the most colourful villains and victims ever to be immortalized in verse, from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden and Mafia hit-men. Browning, Hardy, Auden, Mark Doty, Thom Gunn, Simon Armitage and Stevie Smith are only a few of the wide range of poets, old and new, whose comic, chilling and occasionally profound poetic musings on murder are gathered in this uniquely - and irresistibly - heart-racing volume.

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Author:   Harold Schechter ,  Kurt Brown
Publisher:   Everyman
Imprint:   Everyman's Library
Dimensions:   Width: 11.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 16.50cm
Weight:   0.232kg
ISBN:  

9781841597904

ISBN 10:   1841597902
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 September 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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