Book of Days

Phoebe Power

$29.99

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Carcanet Press Ltd
28 April 2022

Poetry by individual poets; Christian spirituality & religious experience

Book of Days is a long poem recounting a journey along the popular pilgrimage route, or 'Camino' to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. Animated by song and conversation, the poem is filled with the stories of those encountered along the way, combining a multi-voiced soundscape with vivid verbal sketches of landscape and architecture. The possibilities and contradictions of a twenty-first-century pilgrimage are revealed: inevitably informed by tourism and technology, yet offering new kinds of fellowship and connection in an age of individualism and rootlessness. Book of Days can be read as a travel memoir, a meditation on community and solitude, on friendship and sisterhood, and on spirituality. What pilgrims seek on setting out and what they discover as they go prove to be complementary.

Phoebe Power's debut collection, Shrines of Upper Austria (Carcanet, 2018), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize and won the 2018 Forward (Felix Dennis) Prize for Best First Collection. Book of Days extends the formal and thematic concerns of the first book, travelling a new set of paths but with the same restless curiosity and celebratory wonder.

By: Phoebe Power
Imprint: Carcanet Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9781800171787
ISBN 10: 1800171781
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 28 April 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Phoebe Power's Shrines of Upper Austria (Carcanet, 2018) received the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and a Somerset Maugham Award. It was further shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Phoebe's other publications include Sea Change (Guillemot Press, 2021, with Katrina Porteous), an illustrated pamphlet about the Durham coast; and Harp Duet (2016). She is currently based in York.

Reviews for Book of Days

'Hers is surely one of the freshest new voices to emerge in years' - Caitriona O'Reilly; 'Surprising, observed with a sharp eye for detail and a quick sense of humour [...] Power's utterly contemporary voice is one you want to hear more from.' - Bidisha, judge of the Forward Prizes for Poetry 2018 [Praise for Shrines of Upper Austria]

AUSTRALIA-WIDE LOW FLAT RATE $9.90

Book of Days

Phoebe Power

$29.99

Paperback

Reviews for Book of Days

See Also

Contact Abbeys

Contact Galaxy

Contact Language

Contact Us

About ABBEY'S