Dreams, Like Heretics

Dreams, Like Heretics

by Alison Fell (Author)

Synopsis

In Dreams, Like Heretics, Alison Fell expresses the geography of loss and longing. The linguistic energy which informs her poetry is full of grace and fierce wit as she turns images into metaphors of desire, and renewal. A moving sequence, ?In memoriam D.C.?, embraces with the grace of an elegy the dead lover - his moods, his fragrances, his fight for life in a Turkish hospital. Her last collection since Kisses for Mayakovsky, Dreams, Like Heretics makes abundantly clear that Alison Fell is a poet worth waiting for.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 136
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 15 Oct 1997

ISBN 10: 185242561X
ISBN 13: 9781852425616

Media Reviews
?Alison Fell?s stock as a writer is rising. With four novels, three edited anthologies of women?s writing, two collections of poetry and sheaves of short stories behind her, the voice developed is remarkable. Supple in its pacing, with a graphic descriptive accuracy and bright, imaginative aptness, there?s an innate quality to it, an imaginative coherence seaming the poetry and the prose...? The Guardian
Author Bio
Alison Fell was born in Dumfries, Scotland and raised in villages in the Highlands and Borders. Her previous novels are Every Move You Make and The Bad Box. Among several volumes of poetry she has published are Kisses for Mayakovsky which won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award for poetry in 1984. She has edited three Serpent's Tail compilations: The Seven Deadly Sins, The Seven Cardinal Virtues and Serious Hysterics. She now lives and writes full-time in North London.