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Helen Dunmore
ISBN: 9781852247584
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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Explores the fleetingness of life, its sweetness and intensity, the short time we have on earth and the pleasures of the earth, and death as the frame which sharpens everything and gives it shape. This work brings together poems of lyricism, feeling and artistry.
A celebrated winner of fiction's Orange Prize, Helen Dunmore is as spellbinding a storyteller in her poetry as in her novels. "Glad of These Times" is full of haunting, joyous and wry narratives. These new poems explore the fleetingness of life, its sweetness and intensity, the short time we have on earth and the pleasures of the earth, and death as the frame which sharpens everything and gives it shape. "Glad of These Times" is Helen Dunmore's first poetry book since "Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001", a comprehensive selection drawing on seven previous collections. It brings together poems of great lyricism, feeling and artistry.
| ISBN | 1852247584 | | Pages | 64 | | ISBN13 | 9781852247584
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 154 | | Imprint | Bloodaxe Books Ltd | | Published in | Tyne and Wear | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Publication date | 22 Feb 2007 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | Library of Congress | 2007390195 | | Spine width (mm) | 5 | | DEWEY | 821.914 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| | | City lilacs | | 9 | | | | Crossing the field | | 10 | | | | Litany | | 11 | | | | Don't count John among the dreams | | 12 | | | | The other side of the sky's dark room | | 13 | | | | Convolvulus | | 14 | | | | The grey lilo | | 15 | | | | Yellow butterflies | | 16 | | | | Plume | | 17 | | | | Odysseus | | 18 | | | | The blue garden | | 19 | | | | Violets | | 20 | | | | The rowan | | 21 | | | | Barnoon | | 22 | | | | Getting into the car | | 23 | | | | Glad of these times | | 24 | | | | Off-script | | 26 | | | | 'Indeed we are all made from the dust of stars' | | 27 | | | | Tulip | | 28 | | | | Beautiful today the | | 29 | | | | Dead gull on Porthmeor | | 30 | | | | Narcissi | | 31 | | | | Dolphins whistling | | 32 | | | | Borrowed light | | 34 | | | | A winter imagination | | 35 | | | | Athletes | | 36 | | | | Pneumonia | | 37 | | | | Wall is the book | | 38 | | | | Gorse | | 39 | | | | Blackberries after Michaelmas | | 40 | | | | To my nine-year-old self | | 41 | | | | Fallen angel | | 42 | | | | Bridal | | 43 | | | More... | | |
'An electrifying and original talent, a writer whose style is characterised by a lyrical, dreamy intensity' - Guardian 'One of this country's finest literary talents' - Daily Telegraph 'Dunmore gets a wonderful balance between delicate, exact, surprising language and very strong thought - which may be bitter, sardonic, or violent, tender, or wildly imaginative, but is always generous... A lovely poetic electricity runs through her poems' - Sean O'Brien & Ruth Padel, PBS Bulletin  Be the first to write a customer review
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