Sky Nails offers a selection from Jamie McKendrick’s first three collections of poetry, including The Marble Fly, which was both a Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the 1997 Forward Prize for Best Collection.
“But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.” – Elizabeth von Arnim
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“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.” – Saul Bellow
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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis
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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.” – David Foster Wallace