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Very: New and Selected Poems

Very: New and Selected Poems

by Annemarie Austin (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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Synopsis

Annemarie Austin's vividly imaginative poems explore other worlds and other lives, drawing upon her own memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and literature. Very draws together work from five previous collections, together with a whole collection of new poems. Like all her work, the new poems express a sense of unease, but with added awareness of shifting ground. There is also estrangement and loss of language, as well as a kind of gaiety surfacing through almost desperate word-play, which owe much to the 21st century's alienating climate of fear and suspicion. The book also includes her acclaimed double sequence Debatable Land , which speaks first of dementia seen from the outside, and then invents a voice for a woman living inside that condition.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Published: 10 Feb 2008
ISBN 10: 1852247959
ISBN 13: 9781852247959

Media Reviews
'Austin is a fable maker. Hers is a poetry of parts held together by powerfully imagined dream associations. As her world deliquesces and reforms, her imagination breathes life into other people in other times, weirdly authenticating the material she draws from history' - Anne Stevenson'Annemarie Austin's world is one of doubles and reflections...she is deeply engaged with shifting perspectives and challenging perceptions' - Jane Griffiths, Poetry Review'She has the power to suggest the fantastic or the terrible... Annemarie Austin understands that the force of the uncanny lies in the echoing silence at the edge of the unknown' - Helen Kidd, Poetry Quarterly Review'Austin's voice has a shivery intelligence and precision' - Deryn Rees-Jones, London Magazine
Author Bio
Annemarie Austin was born in Devon and grew up on the Somerset Levels and in Weston-super-Mare, where has lived for most of her life. She won the Cheltenham Literature Festival Poetry Competition in 1980, and her first collection, The Weather Coming (1987) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Very: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008) includes work from all her collections, including On the Border (1993), The Flaying of Marsyas (1995), Door upon Door (1999) and Back from the Moon (2003).