Patrick McGuinness

Praise for Blood Feather: This is a deeply moving book of poems ... Shimmering with the "sweet dark syrup" of humour, and gorgeous sleights of imagery, these are poems of extraordinary grace; they come up for air with their cupped hands empty, yet brimming with light, Fiona Benson Patrick McGuinness was born in Tunisia. His first novel, The Last Hundred Days, is a semi-autobiographical account of the fall of communism in Romania, where he lived as a teenager. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Costa First Novel Award and the Desmond Elliot Prize, and won the Wales Book of the Year and the Author's Guild Novel Award. His memoir of a childhood in post-industrial Belgium, Other People's Countries, won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Wales Book of the Year. He has written two books of poetry, The Canals of Mars and Jilted City, both from Carcanet Press, and written various BBC radio programmes and dramas. His second novel, Throw me to the Wolves, was published by Jonathan Cape UK and Bloomsbury USA, and an Italian Selected Poems, entitled Déja-vu, appeared from Interno Poesia in 2019. Throw me to the Wolves won the 202 Encore Award. Real Oxford, a book about the city behind the university, appeared in 2021, and he is the editor of the 2-volume Penguin Book of French Short Stories (2022) His new collection of poems, Blood Feather, is published in May 2023. twitter @padrigmcg www.patrickmcguinness.org