Inside the Wave
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Rating | : | 4.10 (595 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1780373589 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-04-17 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Helen Dunmore (1952-2017) was a poet, novelist, short story and children's writer. Eliot Prize. Her poetry books have been given the Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendations, Cardiff International Poetry Prize, Alice Hunt Bartlett Award and Signal Poetry Award, and Bestiary was shortlisted for the T.S. She has published twelve novels and three books of short stories with Penguin, including A Spell of Winter (1995)
Helen Dunmore is also the author of 15 novels.. Poems about mortality, illness, being alive, and the borderline between the living human world and the underworld. Inside the Wave is British poet Helen Dunmore's first new poetry book since The Malarkey (2012), whose title-poem won the National Poetry Competition
She prefers to show, not tellThe passing of time is crucial in this collection and especially its most violent trick of making years disappear in a momenta collection filled with extraordinary, incorporeal moments and with vanishing actsThe personal poems are superb and anything but self-indulgent' - Kate Kellaway, The Observer; 'Her latest collection is a clear-eyed, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, meditation on time past and people losta superbly structured collection in which poems echo and answer