If This Were Real - Couverture souple

Stevenson, Gerda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0957172273 ISBN 13 : 9780957172272

Editeur : Smokestack Books, 2013

Synopsis

Gerda Stevenson s long-awaited first full-length collection is filled with music skipping rhymes, piano, fiddle and dance music, laments and lullabies. She sings about butterflies, snowberries, aunts, teachers, Pentland rain, Sarajevo roses, graveyards, driftwood and the lost Eden of childhood; about wild weather, warm companionship and unmarked graves, about Bosnia, Iraq, Syria the Pyrenees and Scotland. If This Were Real is a kind of autobiography in verse, informed by intense relationships with places and people, by the personal and the political, by family life and the wider community in her native Scotland and beyond. Stevenson s experience as an actor and singer/song-writer is evident in the rhythmic sound structure of her writing these are poems that demand not just to be read, but to be performed, spot-lit lies, / floodlit truths, and shadowed ambiguities / in our retellings of the world s old tales .

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gerda Stevenson, actor/writer/director, has worked in theatre, radio, film and tv throughout Britain and abroad. She won a BAFTA Best Film Actress award for her role in Margaret Tait s Blue Black Permanent. Her poetry has been published widely, she has written extensively for radio, and in 2008 received a Scottish Arts Council writer s bursary. Her stage play Federer versus Murray was shortlisted for the London Fringe Theatre Writing Award 2010, published by Salmagundi, and toured to New York in 2012.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Smokestack Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0957172273
• ISBN 13: 9780957172272
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 98
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible