Dragons
(, Main)
Publishing Details
Dragons
By (Author) Matthew Francis
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
19th February 2001
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
821.914
Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 2001
Physical Properties
80
Width 128mm, Height 199mm, Spine 8mm
100g
Description
Matthew Francis populates his second collection with dragons, devils, butterflies, an ornamental hermit, a forest god and a whole ocean full of creatures, from whales and cuttlefish to the denizens of deep-sea hydrothermal vents. But strangest of all are the human beings - the ecstasies and indignities of their sexual rites of passage, the routine craziness of their dream lives, the frantic and sometimes terrible adventures of recent and not-so-recent history.
Author Bio
Matthew Francis is the author of four Faber collections, most recently Muscovy (2013). He has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and in 2004 was chosen as one of the Next Generation poets. He has also edited W. S. Graham's New Collected Poems, and published a collection of short stories and two novels, the second of which, The Book of the Needle (Cinnamon Press), came out in 2014. He lives in West Wales and is Professor in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University.
