Terms and Conditions Paul Simonetti and responses to Rilke’s poetry

and responses to Rilke’s poetry by Patrick McGuiness

Guardian and Independent on Sunday and in various literary magazines

Winner of the Fidler First Novel Award

Nelson tumbles back and forth between the slangy

Terms and Conditions Paul Simonetti and responses to Rilke’s poetryThere is a plentitude and a loss to Tania Hershman's Terms & Conditions. A plentitude of tones and forms and linguistic playfulness, and a fine sense of loss that spins and passes through the poems like the neutrinos she mentions in 'Undetected'. I love the collision of the personal and the scientific in this book, the way that the large and small events of life dance a quantum quadrille with language in the light received and emitted by the writer's