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Winner of the James Laughlin Award)
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading À la recherche du temps perdu
” ―Ellen Cranitch
’ – Charlotte Runcie
Packed with fierce poetry
King of a Rainy Country by Matthew Sweeney Tony Frazer Winner of the James LaughlinMatthew Sweeney wrote this set of 50 prose poems in response to Baudelaire's posthumously published collection of prose poems (or petits pomes en prose, as he called them). Modelling his pieces as closely as possible on Baudelaire's, Sweeney has produced a sequence that is wide ranging in both subject and mood there are stories, parables, meditations, diatribes that are, by turns, quirky, reflective, ascerbic and funny the overall effect of which is
