Ghost & Other Sonnets - Softcover

Monk, Geraldine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844717321 ISBN 13: 9781844717323

Publisher: Salt Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Ghost & Other Sonnets will disturb and delight. Working within the conventional form of the sonnet this sequence is on the surface one of Monk's most accessible works but the simplicity is deceptive. Each poem shifts and veers into unexpected complexity. Words shimmy down the page to their unpredictable conclusion leaving the reader delighted, disconcerted and baffled. Monk brings together disparate strands of uncertainty in a fragile world and she does it with her usual tenderness, ferocity and humour.

About this title

About the Author

Geraldine Monk was born in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1952. Since first being published in the 1970s she has written six major collections of poetry and numerous chapbooks. Her writing has appeared extensively in the both the UK and the USA. As an extension to her activities in poetry she collaborates with many musicians including Martin Archer, Charlie Collins and Julie Tippetts. A collection of essays on her poetry, The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk, edited by Scott Thurston, was brought out in 2007 by Salt Publishing.

Review

Geraldine Monk's poetry activates words, makes them events rather than hollow vessels for received understanding. They play, clash, spark and rub up against one another in unpredictable ways with unforeseen consequences.--Julian Cowley "The Wire "

For Monk, even the simplest & most familiar word comes across as opaque, its physicality & material otherness absolutely present.--Ron Silliman

Edition details

• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844717321
• ISBN 13: 9781844717323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80