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Maura Dooley’s poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism
and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart.
These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry
Review) admired her ‘sharp and forceful’ intelligence. Adam
Thorpe praised her ability ‘to enact and find images for complex
feelings…Her poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable
toughness…she manages to combine detailed domesticity with
lyrical beauty, most perfectly in the metaphor of memory ’
(Literary Review). Five Fifty-Five is Maura Dooley’s first new
collection since The Silvering (2016). These are quizzical poems
concerned with time and mortality which ask fundamental questions
about our lives, such as Where have you gone? and Who were you
anyway? She tries to find out through conversations with, among
others, Louisa M. Alcott, Hokusai, Jane Austen, Buzz Aldrin, Anne
Tyler and the Great Uncle and Grandfather she never knew. There are
poems, too, about the difficulties and responsibilities of
translation, both from the written word and in interpreting what is
left unspoken in different kinds of absence; empty streams, bare
trees, the loss of friends. Yet these are poems that find and try
to offer consolation: 'What have you learned exactly? / To love, to
speak up, to hold steady.'
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Poems (Pamphlet)
Azita Ghahreman; Translated by Maura Dooley, Elhum Shakerifar
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Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and
political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These
qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry
Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam Thorpe
praised her ability 'to enact and find images for complex
feelings...Her poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable
toughness...she manages to combine detailed domesticity with
lyrical beauty, most perfectly in the metaphor of memory '
(Literary Review). The Silvering is her first new collection since
Life Under Water, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in
2008. Looking in, looking out, looking through are the recurring
perspectives offered by these poems. These are poems interested in
shifting light and what it reveals, reflects or conceals and
especially, perhaps, in what remains 'caught in the silvering'.
Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
The Honey Gatherers takes its title from a phrase in Michael
Ondaatje's The Cinnamon Peeler, a poem which describes the need to
be marked, and marked out, by love. The search, the sweetness, the
sting and the death of love, are all to be found in this anthology.
Wide-ranging in its inclusiveness, The Honey Gatherers celebrates
the great passions of John Donne, Christina Rossetti, Shakespeare,
Keats, Sir Thomas Wyatt and the beloved Anon, whilst confirming the
extraordinary gift to this headlong debate of 20th century poets.
Pablo Neruda, Lorna Goodison, Brian Patten, Adrienne Rich, Tess
Gallagher, W.H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Dorothy Parker, John Montague,
Thom Gunn, Carol Ann Duffy and Sharon Olds are just some of those
who meet in these pages. Here are poems about romantic love, the
ideal of love, the hurt of love, lost or unrequited love and
parting - all you might expect to find in such a gathering - but
here too are poems of friendship, surprise, celebration and
consolation. This is a book which explores Raymond Carver's big
question 'And what did you want?' and offers some answers: 'To call
myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.' - Raymond
Carver: 'Late Fragment' Most love poetry anthologies only cover the
classics. This one includes modern poets and erotic poetry as well.
Negative of a Group Photograph brings together three decades of
poems by the leading Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman. Born in Mashhad
in 1962 and based in Sweden since 2006, Ghahreman is the author of
five highly acclaimed collections. Her poems are lyrical and
intimate, addressing themes of loss, exile and female desire, as
well as the changing face of her country. Negative of a Group
Photograph runs the gamut of Ghahreman's experience: from her
childhood in the Khorasan region of south-eastern Iran to her exile
to Sweden, from Iran's book-burning years and the war in Iraq to
her unexpected encounters with love. The poems in this illuminating
collection are brought to life in English by the poet Maura Dooley,
working in collaboration with Elhum Shakerifar. Farsi-English dual
language edition co-published with the Poetry Translation Centre.
Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and
political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These
qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in "Poetry
Review") admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam Thorpe
praised her ability 'to enact images for complex feelings...Her
poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable toughness...she
manages to combine detailed domesticity with lyrical beauty, most
perfectly in the metaphor of memory ' - "Literary Review". These
new poems take in the physical landscape, family and friendship, as
well as the transience of both folklore and politics. In part, an
attempt to speak of what is submerged, they welcome that 'splash of
cold water to the face' that tells us we're alive.
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All My Important Nothings (Paperback)
Maura Dooley; Contributions by Zaffar Kunial, Jack Underwood, Daljit Nagra, Paula Meehan, …
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R148
Discovery Miles 1 480
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and
political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These
qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry
Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam Thorpe
praised her ability 'to enact and find images for complex
feelings... Her poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable
toughness...she manages to combine detailed domesticity with
lyrical beauty, most perfectly in the metaphor of memory '
(Literary Review). Sound Barrier presents a selection from earlier
collections of work written over a twenty-year period.
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