How Long to Read Black Cat Bone

How Long Does it Take to Read Black Cat Bone?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read Black Cat Bone by John Burnside

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize, Black Cat Bone is the first American publication of the poetry of John Burnside Before the songs I sang there were the songs they came from, patent shreds of Babel, and the secret Nineveh of back rooms in the dark. Hour after hour the night trains blundered through from towns so far away and innocent that everything I knew seemed fictional: —from "Death Room Blues" John Burnside's Black Cat Bone is full of poems of thwarted love and disappointment, raw desire, the stalking beast. One sequence tells of an obsessive lover coming to...

How long is Black Cat Bone?

Black Cat Bone by John Burnside is 80 pages long, and a total of 20,000 words.

This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 24% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Black Cat Bone Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes to read Black Cat Bone aloud.

What Reading Level is Black Cat Bone?

Black Cat Bone is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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