Drysalter. Michael Symmons Roberts (Cape Poetry) - Softcover

Roberts, Michael Symmons

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224093592 ISBN 13: 9780224093590

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2013

Synopsis

Michael Symmons Roberts sixth - and most ambitious collection to date - takes its name from the ancient trade in powders chemicals salts and dyes paints and cures These poems offer a similarly potent and sensory multiplicity unified through the formal constraint of 150 poems of 15 lines Like the medieval psalters echoed in its title this collection contains both the sacred and profane

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1963. He has published six collections of poetry and received a number of accolades including the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Award and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. As a librettist, his work has been performed in concert halls and opera houses around the world. An award-winning broadcaster and dramatist, he has published two novels, and is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Review:

"He displays an amazing talent for intimacy on paper - sometimes, it almost takes your breath away." -- Kate Kellaway * Observer * "It's all implicit, subtle, hypnotic and often beautiful." * Monocle * "150 poems of 15 lines, combining dazzling elegance and a rare imaginative humility." -- Sean O'Brien * Independent * "150 poems of fifteen lines, tackling multiple subjects from peeling an orange to the universe's "scattergram of long-dead suns". Not a dud among them." -- Adam Thorpe * Times Literary Supplement * "Roberts' most ambitious collection offers a potent and sensory multiplicity." * Good Book Guide *

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0224093592
• ISBN 13: 9780224093590
• Binding: Paperback