🎉   Please check out our new website over at books-etc.com.

Seller
Your price
£9.99
Out of Stock

Zero

By (author) Brian McCabe
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Birlinn General, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Imprint: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 8th Jun 2009
Dimensions: w 121mm h 217mm d 7mm
Weight: 110g
ISBN-10: 1846971179
ISBN-13: 9781846971174
Barcode No: 9781846971174
Trade or Institutional customer? Contact us about large order quotes.
Synopsis
Brian McCabe's fourth poetry collection is an inventive exploration of the world of numbers. With playfulness and poise, McCabe brings mathematics to life through a range of voices: a newsreader reports on the government's introduction of the new number through, a mafia boss invents Roman numerals, a fisherman gives his sardonic take on Pythagorus, and a monkey sheds light on the Golden Mean. Re-imaginings of the lives of mathematicians such as Riemann, Moebius and Napier sit alongside witty and thought-provoking interpretations of numbers: eleven is a pre-teen sulking in his room, while twin primes are portrayed as detained refugees under interrogation. Appealing to readers of poetry and number-lovers alike, "Zero" is a compelling and bravura performance from a poet at the height of his powers.

New & Used

Seller Information Condition Price
-New
Out of Stock

What Reviewers Are Saying

Submit your review
Newspapers & Magazines
'McCabe is a delightful poet with a serious sense of play' -- Kathleen Jamie * Sunday Herald * 'A spiky, observant writer, with a lethal wit' -- Kate Saunders * Scotland on Sunday *