A teenage couple are found murdered in their car. Perry Scholes, a man haunted by cars and death, is mixed up in the case from the start -- it is he who finds the BMW with its young corpses, and now he finds himself trapped in a nightmare....
As night unfolds, the plane travels through storms across the civil war-ravaged country, to deliver a lung from a boy killed in an accident to a waiting transplant recipient -- an old man, fighting for breath -- a northerner, with blood on his ha...
When Corpus won the Whitbread Poetry Award, the judges described it as 'an outstanding, perfectly weighted collection that inspires meditation on the nature of the soul...reading it feels like making an exciting discovery and coming back to an acknow...
Corpus - Michael Symmons Roberts' Whitbread-Prize winning fourth collection - centres around the body. Mystical, philosophical and erotic, the bodies in these poems move between different worlds - life and after-life, death and resurrection - encount...