Hidden River - Couverture souple

Norgate, Stephanie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852247967 ISBN 13 : 9781852247966

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and for the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize

Stephanie Norgate's compelling poems celebrate our sensuous contact with each other and with nature. With subjects ranging from a child's first enjoyment of speech to a lover's lost dialect, they make invisible experiences tangible through vivid and intense imagery. Lovers in a mud bath are transformed into a new vision of creation. The private rituals of birth, love and loss imprint themselves on the landscape, with 'a strong magical sense of rawness and eroticism' (Gerry Stewart), in poems 'all about skin that thin, protective coating, the point of contact between inner and outer worlds' (Jenny Swann).

Hidden River was Stephanie Norgate's first book-length collection, and followed a prize-winning pamphlet, Fireclay, praised by John Walsh in the Independent as the work of 'a marvellous new poet'. Her poems share a passionate concern for survival, for the authentic life of the body, and for all the elements but especially water - its touch and surface, its buoyancy and nourishment, the flowing rhythms that enter us. They 'begin to explore nothing less than human invention' (Jo Shapcott) as they chart strong currents between the dispossessed and the natural world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephanie Norgate is a poet and playwright. Her plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. For many years, she ran the MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University and is now a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Southampton. She edited an international collection of essays, Poetry and Voice (CSP, 2012) and Winchester Poetry Festival's Chalk Poets Anthology (Sarsen Press, 2015). In 2016, she completed a study of poetry trails for South Downs National Park. As a translator, she has contributed to Modern Poetry in Translation and the MPT anthology, Centres of Cataclysm (Bloodaxe Books/MPT, 2016). Her chapter about the imagery of the house in her poetry appears in Architectural Space and the Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Her three collections of poetry with Bloodaxe are Hidden River (2008), which was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, The Blue Den (2012) and The Conversation (2021).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852247967
• ISBN 13: 9781852247966
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible