The Ivy Hides the Fig-Ripe Duchess - Couverture souple

Evans, Ellie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1854115464 ISBN 13 : 9781854115461

Editeur : Seren, 2011

Synopsis

The Ivy Hides the Fig-ripe Duchess is an exhilarating first collection of poems. Using a surrealist palette of imagery and a tightly focused idiom, the author takes us on strange journeys:to the post-apocalyptic world of the title poem, or into a skewed 18th century Venice in The Zograscope . These strange worlds are always to the purpose, they are, as Marianne Moore famously said of poetry imaginary gardens with real toads in them. We obliquely unearth childhood trauma, fraught or intense relationships and also a singular (and perhaps also Welsh?) delight in rebellion, and in escape through the imagination. Poems like Picnic with Earthquakes and Jekyl Island, Georgia deftly align exotic locales (Eastern Europe, South East Asia, Greece and the USA,) with intimate states of mind. A fascination with art and history emerge in: A Brief History of Topiary and Two Monologues from The Odyssey . There is also a palpable delight in technique: you will find a sonnet, a villanelle, triolets and a concise free verse where she employs rhyme, half-rhyme, and subtle alliteration.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ellie Evans (1942-2012) was born in Carmarthen and was educated in Llandeilo and Cardiff. After reading English at Oxford, she worked in publishing and for the Medical Research Council, before living in Hong Kong, teaching English. She has spent most of her adult life teaching in London, but now is based in Powys. She began writing poetry six years ago, and has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Bath Spa where she is finishing a Ph.D. Her poems have been published in several anthologies and in magazines including PNR, Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Red Poets, The Rialto and Acumen. Ellie sadly passed away in September 2012.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seren
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1854115464
• ISBN 13: 9781854115461
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible