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Napoleon's Travelling Bookshelf

Napoleon's Travelling Bookshelf

by SarahHesketh (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

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Synopsis

Highly Commended by The Forward Prize 2010 At once erudite, humourous and stylishly contemporary, Sarah Hesketh's debut collection invokes a world of frozen lakes, 'snow-spun streets' and people who have stayed too long. With formal control and precise, crafted language, these poems examine the 'small relics of lives': china horses in an old people's home, a caged bird, the thighbone of a Saxon saint. Drawing from myth, history and a close reading of the present, Napoleon's Travelling Bookshelf is an impressive and engaging journey into love, identity and what it is to be alone - 'lost from sight / behind the ice-mapped waves'.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 64
 Publisher: Penned in the Margins
Published: 11 Oct 2010
ISBN 10: 0955384664
ISBN 13: 9780955384660

Media Reviews
A voice that is distinctive, smart and reaching for a mode of expression both disciplined and elliptical. - Tears in the Fence Sarah Hesketh writes superbly crafted poems with a very firm hand. Her poems are overflowing with intelligence and scorn for the easy and the cliched, but her ear is as keen as her passion for the right word, the properly perceived state of affairs. We also know that every tiny part of every line has been fiercely fought for and that that is the source of the authority. - George Szirtes What Sarah Hesketh's poems do so remarkably is to string a row of images together in such a way that each keeps its distinct hardness while at the same time contributing to a crystalline whole. They are original and utterly convincing. - Bernard O'Donoghue Hesketh's first collection is a striking debut, abounding in verve and rigour. In stark, lucid language, pared to the bone, summoning images that are sometimes cryptic yet always singing, Hesketh whirls us through a breathless breadth of forms, subjects and perspectives. - Poetry Book Society
Author Bio
Sarah Hesketh was born in 1983 and grew up in Pendle, East Lancashire. She attended Merton College, Oxford and holds an MA in Creative Writing from UEA. In 2007 her collaboration with composer Alastair Caplin was performed at the Leeds Lieder Festival. She currently works as Assistant Director at the writers' charity English PEN.