Bibliograph

The breaking hour, Kevin Crossley-Holland

Type

Label

The breaking hour, Kevin Crossley-Holland

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

The breaking hour

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Summary

"This a book of meetings. A mother meets her baby. A man steps into his childhood. An old man encounters Godfather Death. And in the persona of Harald Hardrada, a passionate man wrestles with his fantasies, and north meets south. The Breaking Hour invokes Orpheus and Atargatis, Pierre de Ronsard and Beethoven, and moves from Hades to a hellish warzone, the high Alps and his own beloved north Norfolk."--Back cover

Table Of Contents

Boyhood -- Translations -- Communion -- Miriam -- The Remit of Love -- L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts -- Trespasses -- Water-Spirit -- Memini -- Kim's Game: First Variation -- Passages -- Lifelines -- A Prayer to Saint Edmund -- Harald in Byzantium -- In Hagia Sophia -- Five Late Medieval Lyrics -- The Roses of Camon -- Grail of Ash -- In St Emmeram-Kirche -- On Coming Second -- Left, Right, Freefall, Starfish -- September -- What She Promises -- A Quiet Mind -- The Syrian Goddess -- On the Cockle-Path -- Girl with Hawk -- North -- Snow and Spruce Forest -- Fledgling Maybe, Maybe Winged -- Landscape -- Six Norfolk Poems: 1. Words -- 2. Nelson Country -- 3. These Things -- 4. Clarification -- 5. Wintering Grounds -- 6. Creation Light -- Sea-Dew -- Prayer -- Notes

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