How Long to Read City of Departures

How Long Does it Take to Read City of Departures?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 28 minutes to read City of Departures by Helen Tookey

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

Description

Shortlisted for The 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection City of Departures is Helen Tookey's second Carcanet collection, following her 2014 Missel-Child, an 'exceptional volume... from a powerful and intelligent imagination' (Jeffrey Wainwright). City of Departures is a collection of uncanny spaces and fleeting encounters, an urban patchwork of glimpsed moments and chance affiliations. Through them, Tookey explores the ways in which we create meaning and connection in these kinds of spaces, and how the nature of those connections — often temporary and provisional — affects who we are, and who we are becoming. Tookey's work has a new formal inventiveness and experimental temperament. The collection mixes prose and verse, and a multitude of voices and structures mingle on its pages. The poems connect through repeated images, themes and tones, which echo and re-echo. Their loci are neglected houses and gardens, canals, wrecked boats... liminal worlds where absence has a presence of its own, fertile ground for ghosts, fantasies, memories, and dreams.

How long is City of Departures?

City of Departures by Helen Tookey is 86 pages long, and a total of 22,016 words.

This makes it 29% the length of the average book. It also has 27% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read City of Departures Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours to read City of Departures aloud.

What Reading Level is City of Departures?

City of Departures 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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