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Poems
Book by Macbeth, George
12 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1970
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January 15, 2018
In the late 1970s George MacBeth and his wife Lisa St Aubin de Teran bought an old rectory in the tiny north Norfolk village of Oby. This moving and heartfelt collection of poems grew out of the pleasures and troubles that this new life brought them. It contains his tour de force sequence of fourteen sonnets Thoughts on a Box of Razors bought at a Stalham sale, and poems reflecting a quiet joy in domesticity and rural life as well as a number concerned with illness and mortality that bring a darker edge to MacBeth's new found contentment. MacBeth was a great cat lover and the two cat poems - Katrine's kittens and One gone, eight to go are among the best in the book.
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