Fossil Unicorn - Softcover

Purcell, Sally

 
9780856462825: Fossil Unicorn
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0856462829 ISBN 13: 9780856462825
Publisher: Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

`Fossil Unicorn' is Sally Purcell's first collection for more than ten years and contains the very best of her work from that period. Drawing on folklore and mediaeval sources, these poems are tense yet fluid in rhythm and diction, and alive with a sense of the numinous underlying the world of the senses. Critics of her first collection, `The Holly Queen', spoke of `the ghostly music' and `diamantine elegance' of her poetry. These qualities have remained constant in her later work, in which she continues to explore the mysteries of the quest through legend and myth.

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About the Author

Sally Purcell studied French and Provençal at Oxford. A specialist in mediaeval literature, she has edited the anthology `Monarchs and the Muse' (Carcanet, 1972), editions of George Peele and Charles d'Orléans (also for Carcanet) and has translated a selection of `Provençal Poems'. Her previous collections are `The Holly Queen' (Anvil, 1971), `Dark of Day' (Anvil, 1977) and `Lake and Labyrinth' (Taxvs, 1985). She is also the author (with William Leaf) of `Heraldic Symbols' (V&A, 1986).

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Publisher
Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0856462829
ISBN 13 
9780856462825
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
64