Love's First Look - Couverture souple

Fordham, S. C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0956321917 ISBN 13 : 9780956321916

Editeur : S C Fordham, 2010

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Sarah Fordham's new poetry collection, Love's First Look, should be read by anyone interested in serious poetry. It is a confessional that is fragrant, poignant, tender and beautifully written. She has a real feeling for language and structure. In fact, language and words are central preoccupations of the book, and along the way she launches wonderful attacks on much modern rubbish masquerading as poetry check out symbolic competency has left the building. But she is at her real best in the short and structured lyric poems such as Evensong , Lifecycle , This Year and It comes are wonderful examples of her own precepts on using rhythm and rhyme. It is worth saying too how ambitious she is: she takes a line from one of our greatest twentieth-century poets, Wilfred Owen, and gives him a run for his money. Sarah is angry with the meaning-destroyers: the people who fail to use language effectively on the one hand, and slip into various forms of nihilism on the other. Her antidote to all this is her strong spiritual beliefs and her compelling poems that invoke heaven, hell and all the earth between. I strongly recommend this collection. It is an important collection that actually says something something more important than what most modern poetry is saying, which is notice me, aren t I being clever? I loved it. --James Sale FRSA, Creative Director, Motivational Maps Ltd

When you read this collection of Sarah Fordham's poems, you will come to these lines: This is the time for poetry . . . Poetry will find the unattended part of you / And blow the dust away . You will feel and know, gratefully, that Sarah is right --Brian McLaren, author/speaker/activist (brianmclaren.net)

Through biblical text, religious dreams and the sacredness of the mundane Sarah Fordham explores the ritual, reality and reverie of her faith. Charting the peaks and troughs of the burden of belief she paints a very real picture of what it is like to view a suffering and very tangible world through the eyes of a God of love --Tamsin Kendrick, poet

Présentation de l'éditeur

Sarah Fordham's second poetry collection - Love's First Look is confessional poetry at its best. ... There are too few passionate people in the world. Most of us could echo the feeling expressed in Shakespeare's lines: Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day... . In the mundane of life, we simply miss the jewels. Sarah has an instinct, a perceptiveness and a passion not only to notice the jewels but to gather them so that we may see them too ... From the Foreword by Faith Forster.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: S C Fordham
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0956321917
• ISBN 13: 9780956321916
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Éditeur: Page Jenny
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible