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Small Hours by Lachlan Mackinnon is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Small Hours about?
Lachlan MacKinnon's fourth collection opens with a gathering of lyrics and descriptive observing rites of passage (elegies, wedding poems), offering nuanced accounts of places and their patchwork afterlives (the Midlands, a Suffolk sketchbook), or meditations on historical figures introspectively at odds with their time (King Canute, Edward Thomas). This preoccupation with contingency - personal and historical - opens onto "The Book of Emma": a long poem of fifty-four sections, written mostly in prose, which address a lost friend and contemporary in terms which seem laconically factual, but which draw their power from archaic conventions (Egyptian, Celtic) of talking to the dead.
Who reads Small Hours?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Lachlan Mackinnon
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Limited
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780571263448
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry
- Rating
- 3.49 / 5 (298 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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