Beware Falling Tortoises - Couverture souple

Pugh, Sheenagh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0907476708 ISBN 13 : 9780907476702

Editeur : Seren, 1995

Synopsis

A falling tortoise is a bizarre way to meet one's end, but it is typical of Sheenagh Pugh's wry humour that it finds a place in her poetry.

The more humorous aspects of mortality and human frailty receive the same alert consideration as sombre subjects such as dictatorship, torture, the Dieppe raid and pollution. Whether describing the significance of the maximum break in snooker or exploring the mind of a Nazi, Sheenagh Pugh's individual voice resonates throughout her finely crafted poetry.

"Sheenagh Pugh's work's accessibility is a feature of the clarity and inevitability with which she can pursue intuitions into territories of luminous significance." Poetry Review

"Sheenagh Pugh is a remarkable, sometimes brilliant poet. Her great gifts are accessibility, wit, subtle rhyme schemes and the power to illuminate half-forgotten corners of history"
Merryn Williams

"... among the top two or three poets of her generation writing English poetry in Wales"
Poetry Wales

Sheenagh Pugh is known to thousands of poetry readers for 'Sometimes', her much anthologised 'poem on the underground' and for her Selected Poems, a set text in schools. She currently lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan, and has won numerous prizes for her work, including the Babel Prize for translation and the ACW Book of the Year in 2000.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sheenagh Pugh has also published nine poetry collections, two ‘Selected Poems’, two novels and a critical book on Fan Fiction. She also translates poetry from Russian, German and Ancient Greek. She says, “My interests are language, history, northern landscapes from Shetland to the Arctic and all points in between, snooker, mortality, cyberspace (I waste massive amounts of time online) and above all, people.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seren
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0907476708
• ISBN 13: 9780907476702
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 56
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible