Extreme of Things

"Extreme of Things" is a large collection combining new poems with a thematic selection from recent books. It explores the duality of existence, a track which runs through all Jenny Joseph's work, whether for children or adults, in poetry or prose. This new book continues her attempt to present "how things work" at the core, at the edge. It begins with poems from her last two collections, "Ghosts and Other Company" (1995) and "All the Things I See" (2000), which lead to the body of new and previously uncollected poems in the second part. The "'Season Songs' from Persephone" (1986), her long out-of-print fictional work, are here reprinted as a bridge or interlude between the two main parts. 'Jenny Joseph writes poems full of mist and reason, poems strange in what they say but plain in the way they say it, poems rooted in an English tradition of passionate but quiet exactness...careful craftsmanship, an honest exploration of the human heart, and statement after statement that nags at the memory' - Robert Nye, "The Times". 'She can delineate surfaces like a sculptor - exact, precise, sharply definite - yet with a startling undertow, a pull of unease which lies just beneath the texture, as an artery beneath the skin' - Joan Foreman, "Eastern Daily Press". 'Rational, realist, philosophical, Jenny Joseph represents a stoical refusal to see life other than it is - a less sentimental poetry it would be hard to imagine' - "British Book News".

ISBN 1852246812   Pages 128 ISBN13 9781852246815 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Bloodaxe Books Ltd   Weight (grammes) 168 Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd   Published in Tyne and Wear Format Paperback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 20 Jan 2006   Width (mm) 138 Library of Congress PR6060.O63   Spine width (mm) 7 DEWEY 821.914   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		A chair in my house, after Gwen John		12
		Trompe l'oeil		13
		Generation gap		14
		Expecting guests		15
		Skipping song		16
		In a dark stone		18
		Song		20
		Paper tigers paper loves		21
		The buried army at Xian		22
		'Birth copulation death'		28
		Flesh		29
		A few do's and don'ts to help you care for your equipment		31
		Old night		32
		By Lake Huron in winter		34
		The things I see		36
		Coming up our street		38
		Getting back home		39
		Humans and animals		40
		Towards the end of summer		41
		Legs like a friend of mine		42
		Changes		43
		Sun and rain : yes and no		44
		Looking at pictures		45
		Poem for an old enemy		46
		Another story of hare and tortoise		47
		Zenith : hold it		48
		Bonfire		51
		Redistribution		52
		For C.J.		53
		One that got away		54
		From part I : autumn, winter		57
		From part II : spring and summer		61
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