Name: The Dog of Memory von Helen Farish
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The Dog of Memory Zusammenfassung

The Dog of Memory Helen Farish

The dog of memory, an animal more often unbiddable and capricious than it is comforting and predictable, roams the landscapes of its choice: not only place, Helen Farish's native Cumberland and further afield - mornings in Sicily, night skies in Athens - and people, but also the landscape of literature itself which is explored through re-readings of ten authors encountered during her school days. Farish's dogged and deeply moving meditation on memory ranges far and wide, but is also weighed against a love of the present whose 'poise is the pause of a church bell suspended / rim-up after its stroke.' The weather of snow, which often evokes as well as muffling the past, is replaced by 'liquefying high-sky heat.' Rendered in poetry of dexterity and poise, this authoritative third collection takes the reader on a thrilling journey which is lyric, dramatic, enquiring. Writer of the Year Finalist, Cumbria Life Culture Awards 2017 Shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year 2017

The Dog of Memory Bewertungen

'This book is Farish's third - her debut won the Forward Prize for First Collection - and it is a confident performance. Farish's poems have balance, and a smiling stride; they take their time (and seldom too much).... The Dog of Memory is an intriguing offering from Helen Farish, evidence above all of a poet... working out what to do with the strange and beautiful things laid at her feet by her own capacity for recall.' - Leaf Arbuthnot, Times Literary Supplement 'Her locations are as varied as you'd expect from a well-travelled, sharp-eyed twenty-first century poet, but her native Cumbria is the source she constantly returns to, slowing the tempo to savour its place-names and define its subtle colours... A rare combination of elegiac feeling, humour, and earthy reminiscence characterises Farish's poems.' - Carol Rumens, The Poetry Review [on The Dog of Memory] 'Nocturnes at Nohant: The decade of Chopin and Sand is an original extremely intelligent working through of a complex relationship between two artists and their work. I loved the poems. The sequence works so well as a story and is so nuanced I felt completely absorbed in it. And full of admiration for Farish's great skill.' - Melvyn Bragg

Über Helen Farish

Helen Farish was born in Cumbria in 1962, where she now lives. She has been a Fellow at Hawthornden International Centre for Writers and was the first female Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust (2004-05). She has also been a Visiting Lecturer at Sewanee University, Tennessee, a Visiting Scholar at the University of New Hampshire, and a lecturer in the department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Her debut collection Intimates (Cape, 2005), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her audio CD Helen Farish reading from her poems was released by the Poetry Archive in 2009. Her second poetry book, Nocturnes at Nohant, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2012. Her third collection, The Dog of Memory, was published by Bloodaxe in 2016.

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Sku

GOR007835987

ISBN 13

9781780373188

ISBN 10

178037318X

Titel

The Dog of Memory Helen Farish

Autor

Helen Farish

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Datum

20160929

Anzahl der Seiten

96

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N/A

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