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The Bone Library

The Bone Library

by Jenni Fagan

Imprint: Polygon

5.1 x 7.7 in

Paperback
9781846975929
November 2022
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These poems are alive with electricity, pulsating with a frequency that vibrates throughout.

In a journey from there to here, The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. Throughout the collection Jenni Fagan responds to broader themes of identity, of place, of love and the unloved.

Written in the old Dick Vet Bone Library during the author’s time as writer-in-residence there, this is a vivid exploration that is honest and searching and cuts to the very core of what it is to be alive.

Jenni Fagan is an award-winning author, poet, screenwriter, essayist and a playwright, and was writer in residence at the University ofEdinburgh. In 2013 Jenni was the only Scottish writer to be on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists list. She is the author of The Panopticon(2012), The Sunlight Pilgrims (2015) and her first poetry collection The Dead Queen of Bohemia was published by Polygon in 2016.

Thrilling, original and unexpected. It promises to take the reader on an unforgettable adventure through the most intimate and haunted secrets of human life.' ~Toni Velikova, Scottish Poetry Library

Thrilling, original and unexpected. It promises to take the reader on an unforgettable adventure through the most intimate and haunted secrets of human life' ~Bookseller

Excels in moments of tenderness, [and] tends to shine most in its wit' ~Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman

Stunning... the vocabulary alone is so vivid, so visceral, and we feel it in the poem that gives the book its title' ~BBC Radio Scotland Afternoon Show