How Long to Read Breathing Spaces

How Long Does it Take to Read Breathing Spaces?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 40 minutes to read Breathing Spaces by Brendan Kennelly

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

Description

This book gives a breathing space for a number of poems which didn't fit into the scope of Brendan Kennelly's Selected Poems, A Time for Voices (Bloodaxe, 1990). It contains the poem-sequences Love Cry (1972), Islandman (1977) and A Small Light (1979), as well as poems from Shelley in Dublin (1974), and the full version of A Girl, consisting of 22 songs, several of which are previously unpublished. The four sequences have been unavailable for some time, and Brendan Kennelly is re-publishing them in response to popular demand. He has written new introductions for each as well as a provocative new essay to preface the whole of Breathing Spaces. In these poems, Kennelly opens up his imagination, making a space through his poetry for constrained voices to speak, live and breathe. Many of these poems anticipate Cromwell and The Book of Judas, in which he allowed those more reviled figures their own breathing spaces. Many have been re-written, he says, 'in the light or darkness of what I've come to believe about poetry and language'.Most of the work in Breathing Spaces was reprinted in Familiar Strangers: New & Selected Poems 1960-2004.

How long is Breathing Spaces?

Breathing Spaces by Brendan Kennelly is 160 pages long, and a total of 40,000 words.

This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Breathing Spaces Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 38 minutes to read Breathing Spaces aloud.

What Reading Level is Breathing Spaces?

Breathing Spaces 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.

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