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Born in Preston Lancashire in , poet Michael Symmons Roberts is also an award-winning radio writer, a documentary filmmaker for the BBC, and a frequent collaborator with the composer James MacMillan. Eliot Prize, and won the Whitbread Poetry Award.

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There is a patient, almost forensic methodology in the poems of Michael Symmons Roberts, a systematic building up or stripping away of layers, until the subject and the sense of each poem is either established or exposed. This collection, Corpus , is almost a poetic autopsy, an investigation of the body, sometimes for signs of life and sometimes for what might loosely be called the human spirit.

But if this is poetry in the religious tradition, there is nothing mystical or superstitious about Corpus. Just to dare to consider such a concept as the soul, the poet must explore wildly differing aspects of human behaviour, from gross acts of torture to moments of ecstatic love; with a photographic accuracy and frame by frame, almost documentary observations, his eye is unflinching.

Knowing but never sagacious, confident but never preachy or dogmatic, this is Symmons Roberts at his most readable, most lyrical best. Who fleeced it? No record in the guest-book. No-one paid, just pocketed the blade and walked, leaving the bed untouched, TV pleasing itself. Maybe there was no knife.

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Maybe the world shrugs off a hide each year to grow a fresh one. That pelt was thick as reindeer, so black it flashed with blue. I tried it on, of course, but no. Read Full Citation. A rare dish is right for those who have lain bandaged in a tomb for weeks: quince and quail to demonstrate that fruit and birds still grow on trees, eels to show that fish still needle streams.