In Position - Couverture souple

Edmond, Lauris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852243716 ISBN 13 : 9781852243715

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

Lauris Edmond is one of New Zealand’s most distinguished poets. Her career has been extraordinarily compressed. Born in 1924, she did not publish her first book until 1975. Since then eleven major collections have appeared, plus An Autobiography in three volumes. Her Selected Poems won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1985. Bloodaxe published her New & Selected Poems in 1992. The voice in this new collection is full of affirmation and pleasure. For Lauris Edmond, being a woman over 70 is an invigorating experience, especially at the end of a century that has so fundamentally changed women’s lives. These new poems show an awareness of loss, of a complete and equivocal grief, set against the vivid savouring of a fragile but often luminous present. Hers is a mature voice, still resilient, even buoyant, yet deeply serious in its reflections on the need to affirm our humanity in the face of death and denial.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lauris Edmond (1924–2000) came to prominence as a poet unusually late, her first volume being published when she was 51. Within ten years, her ‘next journey’ – writing – led to extraordinary success and acclaim. She was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship at Menton in 1981, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1985, the OBE in 1986 and an Honorary DLitt of Massey University in 1988. In addition to her eleven volumes of poetry and three of autobiography, she published a novel, wrote radio and stage dramas and edited several anthologies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852243716
• ISBN 13: 9781852243715
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible