Items related to Raw material: Poems
- PublisherAmate Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0947561315
- ISBN 13 9780947561314
- BindingUnknown Binding
- Number of pages25
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Raw Material: poems. With a commendation by Iris Murdoch. Illustrated by Jean Zivkovic
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Oxford: Amate Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0947561315
ISBN 13: 9780947561314
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Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Edition limited to 275 numbered copies. "I am a laundry assistant in an old peoples nursing home," Sarah Maw wrote to Robin Waterfield at the Amate Press on 12 August 1991. "I have very few interest except in my poetry writing. I write what I feel and most of my work is on the black side but it is what I see through my eyes . . . I have 566 poems to choose from if you want to see them. I am striving to make and composse the perfect poem." Her poems "came to me out of the blue", writes Waterfield in a "publisher's note", "unsolicited and unexplained. After a life time of bookishness and subservience to literary conventions and categories, I felt sure that the Amate Press should end its career with a selection of these poems which conform to no convention of literature, grammar punctuation or spelling but which seem to me to be the authentic voice of all the world's inarticulate sufferers, miraculously and courageously uttered, and deserving to be heard and preserved." Iris Murdoch commended the work as "remarkable, beautiful poems pouring forth truth about pain and death and love. A pure voice." Anne Ridler, quoted on the lower cover, noted "an authentic direct speech". "And the funeral pile / Was cast at sea / A mortified mummy / Bound in rags which was me." Some of the poems are quite disturbing. The Amate Press's career didn't "end" with Raw Material. Its last book was David Gascoyne's Existential Writings in 2001, only months before Waterfield's death. Seller Inventory # T100499
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