The Laureate's Choice 2019 Bound Collection 1: Laureate's Choice 2019 I

Gilbert, Greg; Smith, Karen; Cole, Louise G.; Reddick, Yvonne

ISBN 10 : 1912196239 ISBN 13 : 9781912196234

Editeur : Smith|Doorstop Books, 2019

Synopsis

The Laureate's Choice is an annual pamphlet publication project from The Poetry Business working in collaboration with the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. This boxed set contains all four pamphlets selected by Carol Ann Duffy for 2019:

Greg Gilbert, Love Makes a Mess of Dying - examining the collision between tragedy and hope, these poems follow the struggle to make sense of the prognosis and treatment of a life-threatening disease whilst surrounded by the love and support of friends and family. With cover illustrations by the author.

Karen Smith, Schist - Schist is the lovechild of emotion and geology, the product of a childhood with a schizophrenic mother and an anorexic father on a council estate in Croydon. These poems travel to where the land gives way to the sea and family stability is eroded by illness and death.

Louise G. Cole, Soft Touch - sharp and observant, Louise G. Cole's poems use wry humour to balance the pathos arising from picking holes in life s day-to-day dramas. She often finds poetry in the mundane, twisting fantasy and truth with a memorable resonance.

Yvonne Reddick, Spikenard - Spikenard smoulders with lust and loss. These are poems of separation, assault and revenge, with violence lurking in their margins.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Greg Gilbert is a writer, artist and musician from Southampton and the father of two young girls, ages 4 and 2. In November 2016 he was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer with secondary lung.
He is the lead singer of the band Delays, who have released 4 albums and as an artist was a winner of the Best in The South of England at the National Open Art Competition and exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Karen Smith was educated at Goldsmiths, UCL and the University of Kent, she works as a Cataloguer at The National Poetry Library. She is a member of the Covent Garden Poetry Stanza and attends regular workshops with Mimi Khalvati at Lewes Live Literature. She lives near Brighton with her partner and black cat, and is addicted to open-air swimming.

Originally from Worcestershire but now living in Ireland, Louise G Cole writes poetry, short stories and flash fiction. She won the Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Poetry in March 2018, when a Dublin pub was renamed in her honour. She performs at literary events in the west of Ireland.

Yvonne Reddick’s pamphlet Translating Mountains (Seren, 2017) won the Mslexia Magazine Pamphlet competition and was selected as a favourite pamphlet of the year in the TLS. Her work appears in PN Review, Stand and The North. She has won a Northern Writer’s Award, the Poetry Society’s Peggy Poole Award and a commendation in the 2018 National Poetry Competition. In 2017 she was a Hawthornden Fellow and a Jerwood/Arvon mentee. She is on the editorial board of Magma and is the author of Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Smith|Doorstop Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912196239
• ISBN 13: 9781912196234
• Reliure: Brochure
• Nombre de pages: 130
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible