Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems

Anatomy of Melancholy and Other PoemsBy: Robert Wrigley Series: Penguin Poets A powerful new collection from an award winning poet Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Like its namesakeRobert Burton's seventeenth century examination of human thoughts and emotionsWrigley's new collection means to examine our world through the lens of melancholia.

for the battle of the soul of Africa has begun

he does it all with a good-hearted

The hotel refuses to turn over its reservation list and the victim won’t divulge who she was meeting that night

Told in emails between Eddie and his mum

She and her brother ran barefoot

packaged together for the first time

Nobel Prize-winner Bob Dylan once listed "Sundown" and "If You Could Read My Mind" among his favourite Lightfoot songs

” “The Red-Headed League

casting doubt

the human wolf hunters

he was the boy who always made her laugh

vampire hunter Anita Blake learns what it's like to be at the new end of a centuries-old bloodline—and just how far she’ll let herself get pushed around