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Over By Jane Draycott

Over by Jane Draycott


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A collection of poems that explores liminal places where ocean meets land, land drops to ravine, lives intersect in piazzas. It features poems that cross thresholds between what is finished and what is 'not over yet', between present and past.

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Over by Jane Draycott

Over, Jane Draycott's third book, takes its title from a sequence of twenty-six poems based on the international phonetic alphabet: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta - In these and other pieces, Draycott creates a world of echoing voices and reflections. She evokes the mirrors and doorways, dreams and night-time journeys that transform the familiar: entrances into a different reality. Over explores liminal places where ocean meets land, land drops to ravine, lives intersect in piazzas. The poems cross thresholds between what is finished and what is 'not over yet', between present and past and, in an extract from her new translation of the medieval dream-vision Pearl, between a sunlit garden and the mysterious landscape of the world to come.

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From reviews of Jane Draycott's The Night Tree Jane Draycott's quiet, meticulous poems inhabit the vague, evanescent world between waking and sleeping. Her vision is of an England half in dream, a Samuel Palmer twilight in which things begin to move into an unexpected focus. Times Literary Supplement I've waited some time to read something this intelligent, this sensuous and this crystalline. In fact The Night Tree is the finest collection I've read for ages. Guardian

About Jane Draycott

Next Generation poet Jane Draycott was born in 1954 and has worked as a teacher in London, Tanzania and Strasbourg. She now lives in Oxfordshire and teaches at the Universities of Oxford and Lancaster. Nominated 3 times for the Forward Prize, she has published two collections with Carcanet: Prince Rupert's Drop (1999) and The Night Tree (2004), both Poetry Book Society Recommendations. In 2002, she was winner of the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize. She is currently resident writer at Henley's River and Rowing Museum, and is also Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

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GOR004120214
9781903039922
1903039924
Over by Jane Draycott
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Carcanet Press Ltd
20090428
68
Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2009
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