The Man at the Corner Table - Couverture souple

Shepperd, Rosie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781722463 ISBN 13 : 9781781722466

Editeur : Seren, 2015

Synopsis

Rosie Shepperd s debut poetry collection,The Man at the Corner Table, crackles with the unexpected. The voice is one of urban sophistication; a merciless charm that teases and tempts us with sensual evocations of food and place. The reader is surprised with tastes, scents, colours and textures. There is a winning insistence on detail offered with an irony that blends into satire.

The poems adopt a deadly seriousness to the business of comedy. In It isn t just the under-floor heating that makes me lie down in the kitchen , the poem explores the ineffable by sending it up in a domestic setting that subverts as it disconcerts.

The gorgeous place settings of these poems are not just carefully delineated backdrops. They toy with our interpretations of at table . As in a Dutch master tablescape , they become symbolic of our relation to ourselves, to others and the world.

These poems are exquisite meals, to be devoured amidst surprising intimacies, like the search for solace that is edging towards something more in Balthazar Bakery, Spring Street, NY. Others explore troubling scenarios of grief and loss, such as the heartbreak in You all have lied... . Sometimes the poems appear like postcards from beautifully observed moments of exile, as in Chorinho where the author is hounded and haunted by unease. As in Elizabeth Bishop s Questions of Trael there is artfulness in this unease, and an obligation to close observation that resolutely refuses to moralize.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Rosie Shepperd trained as an Economist and worked in financial journalism and then banking in London and New York until 2004. She studied creative writing at London University s Birkbeck College and at the University of South Wales. Initially a writer of radio plays, she fell in love with writing, reading and studying poetry and is currently embarked on a PhD at London University s Goldsmith s College, in which she models and maps theories of creativity and aesthetics as they appear in poetry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seren
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781722463
• ISBN 13: 9781781722466
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible