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Andraste's Hair (Salt Modern Poets) - Hardcover

Eleanor Rees

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9781844713042: Andraste's Hair (Salt Modern Poets)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1844713040 ISBN 13: 9781844713042
Publisher: Salt Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Bridging the divide between experimental, performance and traditional poetries the poems in Andraste's Hair draw on myth, memory, folksong and murder ballad. Often set in a mythical Liverpool, a city of metamorphosis and magic, grotesque and beautiful, its buildings are a backdrop for visions and apprehensions of the past.

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About the Author

Eleanor Rees was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in 1978. Her pamphlet collection Feeding Fire received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and her first full length collection Andraste's Hair (Salt, 2007) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards. Eleanor works in the community as a poet, running writing workshops for The Windows Project and is also a part-time Lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University. Eleanor often collaborates with other writers, musicians and artists and works to commission. She lives in Liverpool. www.eleanorrees.com

Review

Eleanor Rees's debut collection offers up a heartfelt hymn to her native Liverpool. Her dense, textured renderings of its landscapes are eloquent, but it is her importunate, ambiguous relationship with the city that provides these poems with their drive. -- Sarah Crown * The Guardian * Rees's work is completely deserving of its shortlist position, even more so for a voice outside the mainstream. That can only be good news for small presses, literary awards and non-dead poets everywhere. -- Ross Sutherland * Liverpool Metro * Eleanor Rees's debut collection offers up a heartfelt hymn to her native Liverpool. Her dense, textured renderings of its landscapes are eloquent, but it is her importunate, ambiguous relationship with the city that provides these poems with their drive. -- Sarah Crown * The Guardian * Rees's work is completely deserving of its shortlist position, even more so for a voice outside the mainstream. That can only be good news for small presses, literary awards and non-dead poets everywhere. -- Ross Sutherland * Liverpool Metro *

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Publisher
Salt Publishing
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1844713040
ISBN 13 
9781844713042
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
71
Rating
  • 3.63 out of 5 stars
    19 ratings by Goodreads