Lights - Couverture souple

Bidgood, Ruth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1788640845 ISBN 13 : 9781788640848

Editeur : Cinnamon Press, 2019

Synopsis

Well into her nineties, Ruth Bidgood continued to write, and to write at the peak of her powers. Lights melds reminiscence and observation against the backdrop of a long life and the beloved landscape of Ruth's home. It is an extraordinary body of work.

Of Ruth's work, the late Anne Cluysenaar observed:

Intensity of attention, to the truth both of what is seen and of what is felt, is Ruth Bidgood's distinctive quality. ... These are daring poems, open to speculative thought. And, crucially, they place truth of experience above the 'dust motes' of convention, combining deep feeling with keen intelligence.

Welsh born and educated at Oxford, Ruth Bidgood served as a Wren during the Second World War. A sub-editor of Chambers' Encyclopedia, she eventually settled in Abergwesyn, where she started to write poems and document local history. Her poetry as been widely published and her collections had been short listed for numerous awards. Her collection, Land- music/Black Mountains, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2016.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Born in Seven Sisters, Glamorgan, Ruth was educated in Port Talbot before reading English at Oxford University. During World War II, she served as a Wren in the Middle East. She was sub-editor of Chambers’ Encyclopedia. After many years in Surrey, Ruth returned to Wales and settled in Abergwesyn where she started to write poems and document local history.

Her work has been published in various journals and collections. Not Without Homage (Christopher Davies, 1975) received a Welsh Arts Council award; and both Selected Poems (Seren, 1992) and The Fluent Moment (Seren, 1996) were shortlisted for the Welsh Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 1993 and 1997. Her New and Selected Poems (Seren, 2004) was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Prize in 2005 and Time Being (Seren, 2009) won the Roland Mathias Prize for 2011 and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Ruth is a Fellow of Academi. A full-length study of her work was written by Matthew Jarvis. Her previous collections with Cinnamon Press include Hearing Voices (2008), Above the Forests (2012) and this beautiful tête-bêche double collection, Land Music / Black Mountains. Her latest collection is the pamphlet, Lights.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cinnamon Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788640845
• ISBN 13: 9781788640848
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 32
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible