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Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in
Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of
ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly
earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring
voices of her generation. In Of Mutability, Shapcott is found
writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that
explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world,
and in the shifting relationships between people - these poems look
freshly but squarely at mortality. By turns grave and playful,
arresting and witty, the poems in Of Mutability celebrate each
waking moment as though it might be the last, and in so doing
restore wonder to the to the smallest of encounters.
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Ten Poems about Tea (Staple bound)
Sophie Dahl; Illustrated by Jill Perry; Selected by Lorraine Mariner; Contributions by Thomas Hardy, Jo Shapcott, …
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Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in
Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of
ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly
earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring
voices of her generation. In Of Mutability, Shapcott is found
writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that
explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world,
and in the shifting relationships between people - these poems look
freshly but squarely at mortality. By turns grave and playful,
arresting and witty, the poems in Of Mutability celebrate each
waking moment as though it might be the last, and in so doing
restore wonder to the to the smallest of encounters. This
beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles
celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.
Poems 1988-1998 is a compendium from Jo Shapcott's award-winning
books Electroplating the Baby, Phrase Book and My Life Asleep. It
reveals her to be a writer of ingenious, politically acute and
provocative imagination and justifies her reputation as one of the
most original and daring voices of her generation.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet
of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and
critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors
offer insights into their own work as well as providing an
accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest
poets of our literature. George Herbert (1593-1633) was educated at
Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was
appointed Reader in Rhetoric in 1618 and Public Orator in 1620. He
was a Greek and Latin scholar, was fluent in modern languages and
an accomplished musician. In 1626 he resigned his seat in
parliament and took holy orders, becoming Rector of Bemerton, a
tiny rural parish on Salisbury Plain, in 1630. The Temple,
Herbert's great structure of poems from which the present selection
is drawn, first appeared in 1633, the year of his death.
Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
When she died in 1979, she had only published four collections, yet
had won virtually every major American literary award, including
the Pulitzer Prize. She maintained close friendships with poets
such as Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell, and her work has always
been highly regarded by other writers. In surveys of British poets
carried out in 1984 and 1994 she emerged as a surprising major
choice or influence for many, from Andrew Motion and Craig Raine to
Kathleen Jamie and Lavinia Greenlaw. A virtual orphan from an early
age, Elizabeth Bishop was brought up by relatives in New England
and Nova Scotia. The tragic circumstances of her life - from
alcoholism to repeated experiences of loss in her relationships
with women - nourished an outsider's poetry notable both for its
reticence and tentativeness. She once described a feeling that
'everything is interstitial' and reminds us in her poetry - in a
way that is both radical and subdued - that understanding is at
best provisional and that most vision is peripheral. Since her
death, a definitive edition of Elizabeth Bishop's "Complete Poems"
(1983) has been published, along with "The Collected Prose" (1984),
her letters in "One Art" (1994), her paintings in "Exchanging Hats"
(1996) and Brett C. Millier's important biography (1993). In
America, there have been numerous critical studies and books of
academic essays, but in Britain only studies by Victoria Harrison
(1995) and Anne Stevenson (1998) have done anything to raise
Bishop's critical profile. "Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the
Periphery" was the first collection of essays on Bishop to be
published in Britain, and draws on work presented at the first UK
Elizabeth Bishop conference, held at Newcastle University. It
brings together papers by both academic critics and leading poets,
including Michael Donaghy, Vicki Feaver, Jamie McKendrick, Deryn
Rees-Jones and Anne Stevenson. Academic contributors include
Professor Barbara Page of Vassar College, home of the Elizabeth
Bishop Papers.
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Poems (Paperback)
Farzaneh Khojandi; Translated by Jo Shapcott, Narguess Farzad
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Emergency Kit is an anthology with many differences. It is, to
begin with, a book which gives prominence to poems rather than to
the poets who wrote them. It is truly international, bringing
together poems not just from these islands but from many parts of
the English-speaking world. It is the first book to identify a
strain in the poetry of the last half-century which is
characteristic of the 'strange times' we live in - an age when, as
the editors note, scientific discovery itself has encouraged us to
'make free with the boundaries of realism'. It values imagination,
surprise, vivid expression, the outlandish and the playful above
ideology and sententiousness. It is, in short, living proof that
poetry in the English language continues to thrive and to matter.
My Life Asleep is a vigorous collection of poems, lively and never succumbing to gloom, despite their black humour and sometimes macabre tone.;This is Jo Shapcott's third collection. She is the joint anthologist with Matthew Sweeney of Emergency Kit for Faber, and her work is appearing in a volume of Penguin Modern Poets.;She lives in London, and is kept busy on the reading circuit.;This book is intended for poetry readers, students.
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