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Fool Greta Stoddart

Fool By Greta Stoddart

Fool by Greta Stoddart

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The Fool asks questions in Greta Stoddarts fourth collection. When knowledge is ours at the tap of a key, what is it were accumulating, and is it at the expense of another, more intuitive, kind of knowing? What can we be trusted to know?

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Fool by Greta Stoddart

When knowledge is ours at the tap of a key, what is it were accumulating, and is it at the expense of another, more intuitive, kind of knowing? The word fool derives from the Latin follis, one of whose meanings is empty-headed person. We cant imagine such mindlessness but might it be possible that by unknowing a thing we can start to see it properly? Theres a lot the fool doesnt know otherwise they wouldnt be a fool. But can anyone be trusted to know anything? What can we be trusted to know? A certain apprehension runs through these poems; a low-level hum of discordance between inner and outer worlds, between the sceptical and the wondering mind. Ideas of belief and objective truth play out in various ways, often through lone figures, thinking aloud in a wilful kind of performance of being. Fool is Greta Stoddarts fourth collection. Her third collection Alive Alive O was published by Bloodaxe in 2015.

Fool Reviews

Greta Stoddart sets transience against endurance: the certainty of human mortality against the mysteries of forbearance. -- David Harsent * Chair of Judges, Roehampton Poetry Prize, on Alive Alive O *
Colloquial, faintly unruly, the poems travel light on adventures of consciousness, channelling the energies of a big, agnostic imagination into new forms. -- Carol Rumens * Poetry Review, on Alive Alive O *
When not confronting life and death as we most vividly encounter them, Stoddarts poems suggest the ways in which our mortality is ever-present in daily life Alive Alive O is a compelling book, defiant in the face of lifes losses. -- Ben Wilkinson * Times Literary Supplement *

About Greta Stoddart

Greta Stoddart was born in 1966 in Oxfordshire. She grew up in Belgium and Oxford before going on to study drama at Manchester University, then at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She co-founded the theatre company Brouhaha in London, touring the UK and Europe. She has lived in Devon since 2007. Her first collection, At Home in the Dark (Anvil Press, 2001), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2001 and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her second, Salvation Jane (Anvil, 2008), was shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Poetry Award. In 2007 she was nominated by Mslexia as one of the best ten contemporary women poets in the UK. Her poem Deep Sea Diver was shortlisted for the 2012 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Her third collection, Alive Alive O (Bloodaxe Books, 2015), was shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize. Her half-hour radio drama Who's There?, first broadcast on Radio 4's The Echo Chamber in 2017, was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award. Her fourth collection, Fool, is published by Bloodaxe in 2022.

Table of Contents

11 The Act 13 Where to look 15 A glass of water 16 What is a question 18 Perfect Field 20 Second Nature 22 Three tulips in a milk bottle 24 Clay 26 Slow Cinema 28 Adult Education 29 Fool 30 How I come to clean the windows 31 Smile 33 Birds Britannica: Exhibition Catalogue 36 Cold and lonely wastes 37 Concorde 39 The little living room 41 School Field 42 Remote 44 Constellation 46 Consider the mornings 49 Once upon a time 50 Untimely 54 Walking into church 55 Spell 56 The long grass 57 Performance 58 Flowers for my ego and a dark stage 59 The Rose Garden 63 I wish I could be fresh, honest and brave 64 Yesterday I planted a tree 65 What is a tree 66 My life came up to me and said 68 Lie in a field on your back

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NGR9781780376271
9781780376271
1780376278
Fool by Greta Stoddart
Greta Stoddart
New
Paperback
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
2022-09-15
72
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