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Blood Feather

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A new book of poems, published by Jonathan Cape, May 2023

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https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/418648/blood-feather-by-mcguinness-patrick/9780224098311

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It is a feat to write weight-bearing poems of such lightness. The balance, charm and wit of the writing are remarkable. Kate Kellaway, Observer

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/09/blood-feather-patrick-mcguinness-review-poetry-grief

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  • This is McGuinness's best collection by far, and stands out from the crowd

    Sunday Times

  • An eloquent fusion of the delicate and the direct

    Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2023*

  • Arresting... Reminds us that the best poetry is often that which never makes it from the notebook

    Guardian

  • Brilliant studies... energies by precisely noted details and exact language... a book alive with understated yearning

    Literary Review

  • Patrick McGuinness writes of the other country of childhood with Proustian élan and Nabokovian delight

    John Banville, author of THE SEA

  • This is a deeply moving book of poems ... Shimmering with the "sweet dark syrup" of humour, and gorgeous sleights of imagery, these are poems of extraordinary grace; they come up for air with their cupped hands empty, yet brimming with light

    Fiona Benson, author of EPHEMERON

  • An extraordinary writer of great compassion

    Denise Mina, author of THE FIELD OF BLOOD

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Real Oxford

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Published 21 June by Seren Books

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https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/real-oxford

 

 

Throw me to the Wolves won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award 2020

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https://rsliterature.org/award/encore-award/

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Throw me to the Wolves Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award

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https://thecwa.co.uk/the-daggers/categories/gold

 

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"This is a writer worth knowing… [McGuinness] combines elegant prose with caustic commentary on romance, education and crime… most people can write for a lifetime and not produce so perfect a sentence."

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Patrick Anderson

Washington Post

Published April 2019

Jonathan Cape

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Patrick McGuinness is a British novelist and poet. He is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford, where he is Fellow and Tutor at St Anne's College.

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