Fair's Fair (Paperback)

Susan Utting

ISBN 10: 190167780X / ISBN 13: 9781901677805

Verlag: Two Rivers Press, Reading, 2012

Beschreibung

Paperback. Fairs Fair, Susan Uttings third full poetry collection has been described as joyous, heartbreaking, rammd with life. In these poems dead creatures (a stuffed bird, a taxidermists zebra) and people (a lovable, garrulous old man, a strange, moon-faced woman) come back to life. The graveyard dead join in the partying and after-hours drinking in the village pub; a lament becomes a celebration of life. Full of desires and ambitions some fulfilled, some thwarted, from learning to read to reaching the moon, from shape-shifting to living without mirrors poems are paired to speak to, or reflect each other. Themes and stories chain-react and echo throughout the book in Uttings trademark rich vocabulary, strong rhythms and distinctive patterns of sound. Fairs Fair continues to fulfil Adrian Mitchells description of Susan Uttings work: Her poems are musical, magical and have a clarity which goes straight to the heart. These poems are full of desires and ambitions - some fulfilled, some thwarted, from learning to read to reaching the moon, from shape-shifting to living without mirrors. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781901677805

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Fair's Fair (Paperback)
• Verlag: Two Rivers Press, Reading
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 190167780X
• ISBN-13: 9781901677805
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

Fair’s Fair, Susan Utting’s third full poetry collection has been described as ‘joyous, heartbreaking, ramm’d with life’. In these poems dead creatures (a stuffed bird, a taxidermist’s zebra) and people (a lovable, garrulous old man, a strange, moon-faced woman) come back to life. The graveyard dead join in the partying and after-hours drinking in the village pub; a lament becomes a celebration of life. Full of desires and ambitions – some fulfilled, some thwarted, from learning to read to reaching the moon, from shape-shifting to living without mirrors – poems are paired to speak to, or reflect each other. Themes and stories chain-react and echo throughout the book in Utting’s trademark rich vocabulary, strong rhythms and distinctive patterns of sound. Fair’s Fair continues to fulfil Adrian Mitchell’s description of Susan Utting’s work: ‘Her poems are musical, magical and have a clarity which goes straight to the heart.’

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

SUSAN UTTING was born in South London, moved twenty times in forty years, then settled, after a fashion, in Berkshire. Notions of home, identity and where she comes from frequently feature in her writing, and are again explored in this book, as are the shifting lives of other women, the Half the Human Race of the title.
Susan studied Creative Writing at Sussex University and English with film and drama at Reading University, where she subsequently taught for more than 17 years. Her awards include an Arts Council Laureateship, Poetry Business Pamphlet Prize, The Berkshire Poetry Prize, The Peterloo Prize and a writing fellowship at Reading’s School of English and American Literature. Her poems have been widely published, including in The Times, TLS, The Independent, Forward Book of Poetry, The Poetry Review and Poems on the Underground. Her work was selected by the London Poetry Library to be recorded for Poetry International at the South Bank Centre, where it was broadcast along with other international poets' work.
Half the Human Race follows and includes selections from three earlier collections: Striptease (Smith/Doorstop), Houses Without Walls (Two Rivers Press) and Fair’s Fair (also TRP).