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Fusewire (Chatto poetry)

Fusewire (Chatto poetry)

by RuthPadel (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

    $3.25
Synopsis

Fusewire has the fierce historical awareness and linguistic energy of Ruth Padel's previous collections but moves into new territory and new clarity. Poems on British activity in Ireland through the ages intrude on an intensely moving series of love poems which reverse sexual cliches of colonisation: here Britain is female and Ireland the high-profile man. From the prize-winning poet of Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, Voodoo Shop and The Soho Leopard, all shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 56
 Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 15 Feb 1996
ISBN 10: 0701163798
ISBN 13: 9780701163792
Book Overview: A powerful collection that interweaves love poetry with lyrical meditations on Anglo-Irish politics from the prize-winning, wildly original Ruth Padel.

Media Reviews
[A] rewarding and effective Anglo-Irish affair, using a passionate relationship to cast light on the vexed colonial history and current situation of the two islands... There are some intensely erotic moments -- Guardian
She has a fierce humour. Her poems speed, never out of the fast lane * Poetry Ireland Review *
[An] extraordinary talent * Observer *
Her sense of history, of the past intertwining with the present, is most poignant * Times Literary Supplement *
If Wallace Stevens and Anna Akhmatova were one and the same person, you'd have Ruth Padel -- Paul Durcan
Author Bio
Ruth Padel is a prize-winning poet, Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London, and first Resident Writer at Somerset House, London. Her poetry collections include Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, Voodoo Shop and The Soho Leopard, all shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; and, most recently, the critically-acclaimed Darwin. She has also published two much-loved books on reading contemporary poetry, 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem and The Poem and the Journey, and a highly acclaimed nature book, Tigers in Red Weather, shortlisted in the US for the Kiriyama Prize.