# Walking Papers

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- Book: [Walking Papers](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-r-lynch/walking-papers) ([Walking Papers.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-r-lynch/walking-papers.md))
- Authors: [Thomas R. Lynch](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-r-lynch)
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape
- ISBN: 978-02-2409-006-3
- Pages: 80
- Published: 2010-08-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

If life is pilgrimage, Walking Papers are the pages - the notes on the journey, news of the world, letters of introduction and dismissal - found in one's breast-pocket amongst one's effects. And Thomas Lynch, the celebrated poet-undertaker is our guide through a world that's painfully aware of its own mortality; as he says in the powerfully moving title poem: 'Listen - /something's going to get you in the end./The numbers are fairly convincing on this,/hovering, as they do, around a hundred/percent. We die. And more's the pity.' In this, his fourth collection of poems - his first in the new century - Lynch attends to the flora and fauna and fellow pilgrims: dead poets and living masters, a former president and his factotums, a sin-eater and inseminator. Faux-bardic and mock-epic, deft at lament and lampoon, accusation and dispensation, fete and feint, Lynch's poems are powerful medicines, tonics for the long haul and home-going.