# From The Neanderthal

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- Book: [From The Neanderthal](https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-thorpe/from-the-neanderthal) ([From The Neanderthal.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-thorpe/from-the-neanderthal.md))
- Authors: [Adam Thorpe](https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-thorpe)
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape
- ISBN: 978-02-2409-088-9
- Pages: 64
- Published: 2010-04-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The poems in Adam Thorpe's latest collection are concerned with the continuum between two worlds: the lived present and the felt past. With the attentive care of an archaeologist he uncovers and examines fragments - from a personal history or the historic past - and rebuilds the narrative: a fossil in Hitler's stadium, a wedding photograph, marks on the wall where an eighteenth-century priest was shot. With formal dexterity and rhythmic assurance, these versatile, subtle poems investigate the vertiginous dynamic of history - where a shard of stone stands for civilisation, where a silver of memory becomes a life re-lived. After nine years, during which time he has emerged as one of Britain's most powerful and innovative novelists, Adam Thorpe now returns - triumphantly - to poetry.