How Long to Read The Magpie and the Child

How Long Does it Take to Read The Magpie and the Child?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 52 minutes to read The Magpie and the Child by Catriona Clutterbuck

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

Description

The Magpie and the Child tells a story of great loss, love, and learning. The volume starts from the days before the poetic journey, in a sort of pre-exploration of events before they were events, moving to and through the death of her child Emily at almost eleven years old from an unsuspected heart condition. The poems speak, lament, and sing among the metaphors and religious resonances that such mourning must inspire. The thieving magpie of the prefatory title poem pecks at its own image in the glass while the poet daubs the hope of intervening blood on the "trembling lintel of faith." The volume is filled with self-examination, suffering, remembered conversations with the living child, and very real ones with the dead, each of which record the steps of the emotional journey. The second half of The Magpie and the Child is an extended sequence taking the form of a fragmented diary, one that captures the pain of loss in a skeptical age yet insists on the ritual compensation of belief. In the rigors of its form, the depth of its despair, and the necessary belief in the meaning of its artistic act, Clutterbuck's poetry carefully and beautifully maintains this very delicate balance.

How long is The Magpie and the Child?

The Magpie and the Child by Catriona Clutterbuck is 112 pages long, and a total of 28,224 words.

This makes it 38% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Magpie and the Child Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 34 minutes to read The Magpie and the Child aloud.

What Reading Level is The Magpie and the Child?

The Magpie and the Child 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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