How Long to Read The Asylum Dance

How Long Does it Take to Read The Asylum Dance?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 38 minutes to read The Asylum Dance by John Burnside

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

Description

Lucid, tender, and strangely troubling, the poems in The Asylum Dance - which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry - are hymns to the tension between the sanctuary of home and the lure of escape. This is territory that Burnside has made his own: a domestic world threaded through with myth and longing, beyond which lies a no man's land - the 'somewhere in between' - of dusk or dawn, of mists or sudden light, where the epiphanies are. Using the framework of four long poems, 'Ports', 'Settlements', 'Fields' and 'Roads', the poet balances presence with absence; we are shown the homing instinct -...

How long is The Asylum Dance?

The Asylum Dance by John Burnside is 96 pages long, and a total of 24,576 words.

This makes it 32% the length of the average book. It also has 30% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Asylum Dance Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 14 minutes to read The Asylum Dance aloud.

What Reading Level is The Asylum Dance?

The Asylum Dance 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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