Cold Spring in Winter - Couverture rigide

Rouzeau, Valerie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1904614590 ISBN 13 : 9781904614593

Editeur : Arc Publications, 2009

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin International Prize, the world's largest poetry prize.

Cold Spring in Winter (Pas Revoir in its original French) caused quite a stir when it was published in 1999. Here was the shock of an authentically new voice in whose urgent, stammered cadences an adult, and the little girl she used to be, join together to compose a lament for her dead father, a scrap-metal dealer. It takes a page or two to get used to this strange mixture of 'child-speak', youth slang, made-up words, puns and sophisticated adult expression (all perfectly conveyed in Susan Wick's translation), but once immersed in this extraordinary sequence of poems, it is hard to put it down, so compelling, strange and moving does it prove to be.

Arc Visible Poets' series no. 25

"... this poet has found a truly authentic voice in what will doubtlessly be a glittering career this side of the Channel."
Poetry Review

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

VALERIE ROUZEAU (author) was born in 1967 in Burgundy, France and now lives in a small town near Paris, Saint-Ouen, well-known for its flea-market. She has published a dozen collections of poems, including 'Pas revoir '(le de bleu, 1999), 'Va ou' (Le Temps qu'il Fait, 2002) and more recently 'Apothicaria' (Wigwam, 2007) and 'Mange-Matin' (l'idee bleue, 2008). She has also published volumes translated from Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, Ted Hughes and the photographer Duane Michals. She is the editor of a little review of poetry for children (from 5 to 117 years old) called 'dans la lune' and lives mainly by her pen through public readings, poetry workshops in schools, radio broadcasts and translation. SUSAN WICKS (translator), poet and novelist, was born in Kent, England, in 1947. She read French at the universities of Hull and Sussex, and wrote a D. Phil. thesis on Andre Gide. She has lived and worked in France, Ireland and America and has taught at the University of Dijon, University College Dublin and the University of Kent. She is the author of five collections of poetry including 'Singing Underwater '(1992), which won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize, and 'The Clever Daughter' (1996), which was short-listed for both the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes, and she was included in the Poetry Society's 'New Generation Poets' promotion in 1994. A short memoir, 'Driving My Father', was published in 1995. She is also the author of two novels, 'The Key' (1997), the story of a middle-aged woman haunted by the memory of a former lover, and 'Little Thing' (1998), an experimental novel about a young Englishwoman living and teaching in France. Her most recent book of poems, 'De-iced', came out from Bloodaxe in 2007, and a book of short stories, 'Roll Up for the Arabian Derby', from Bluechrome in 2008. STEPHEM ROMER (introducer) was born in Hertfordshire in 1957, and is a lecturer at the University of Tours in France. He has also been Visiting Professor in French at Colgate University, New York. His own poetry collections include 'Idols' (1986); 'Plato's Ladder '(1992); and 'Tribute' (1998). He has translated many French poets, including Philippe Jaccottet, Jean Tardieu, and Jacques Dupin. He has also translated sections from the 'Notebooks of Paul Valery' (2002). His latest collection of poetry is 'Yellow Studio' (2008), short-listed for the 2008 T. S. Eliot Prize. Stephen Romer is also the editor of '20th-Century French Poems' (2002).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arc Publications
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1904614590
• ISBN 13: 9781904614593
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 134
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible