Elsewhere and Back: New & Selected Poems - Couverture souple

MacInnes, Mairi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852241993 ISBN 13 : 9781852241995

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

Reviewing Mairi MacInnes’s Elsewhere & Back, Helen Dunmore praised her ‘restless, ranging poems’, noting how her poems ‘hint at rather than state in order to create a powerful sense of the identity of place. Place always seems more important than the characters who are temporarily rooted in it’ (Observer). Mairi MacInnes wrote of her work: 'Like most women, I put my hand to what paid, to help out and to buy time and liberty. Retirement to the North Riding with my husband has brought with it not only time and liberty, but also a chance to seize and understand at leisure the things that have always pressed to be written about. Yet as far as poetry goes, I’ve never believed in an Atlantic divide. At the extremes there are two distinct styles. They meet, however, in a middle ground of a hundred common concerns, some of which are reflected here.’

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mairi MacInnes (1925-2017) was born in Norton-on-Tees, Co. Durham, and educated in Helmsley and at Somerville College, Oxford. She married the American literary critic John McCormick, and followed him to the Frei Universität after the war and then to the USA, where she raised their three children in the wilds of Maine, then Rutgers, with time out in Mexico and Spain. After a promising start with a poetry collection Splinters (1953) and novel Admit One (1956), her literary career stalled. It was only with the publication of Herring, Oatmeal, Milk & Salt (1982) that she really launched herself as a poet. Returning to England with John and their three children in 1987, she spent the last 30 years of her life in Yorkshire, in the Yorkshire Wolds and York. Her subsequent collections included The House on the Ridge Road (1988), Elsewhere and Back: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 1993), The Ghostwriter (Bloodaxe Books, 1999), The Pebble: Old and New Poems (University of Illinois Press, 2000), The Girl I Left Behind Me: Poems of a Lifetime (Shoestring Press, 2003) and Amazing Memories of Childhood, etc (Two Rivers Press, 2016). In 2014 she was awarded an Honorary Degree from the University of York. Beside poetry, she wrote another novel The Quondam Wives (Louisiana State University Press, 1993) and a memorable autobiography, Clearances (Pantheon, 2002).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852241993
• ISBN 13: 9781852241995
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible