Signs Round a Dead Body (Paperback)

Deryn Rees-Jones

ISBN 10: 1854112414 / ISBN 13: 9781854112415

Published by Poetry Wales Press, Bridgend, 1998

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Paperback. Signs Round a Dead Body is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Deryn Rees-Jones's widely acclaimed first collection, The Memory Tray. Her humour, sharp technique and preoccupation with the dilemmas of women are as apparent as ever, but there is now a more intense personal focus. Love, in all its permutations, suffuses this book, and sensuous details abound: from poems like 'Making Out' and 'From His Coy Mistress', about the fears and vacillations of love, to the disillusionment of the Nerudian 'Songs of Despair'. Informed by a sensibility at once passionate, intelligent and ironic, this new collection confirms Rees-Jones's place at the forefront of contemporary poetry."The pick of the crop, a magician with attitude, pinning ideas down but at the same time giving them time to breathe"Ian McMillan, Poetry Review"Mighty poems. a direct line to the remembered and imagined life - so rare in writers, rarer still in young writers. her general reverence for bodies, and her generous remembrance of them makes her readers feel alive in ways they haven't felt before. It is not nostalgia, it is transport and return"Thomas Lynch Deryn Rees-Jones was educated at the University of Wales, Bangor, and Birkbeck College, London. She is an Eric Gregory Award winner, and The Memory Tray was shortlisted for a Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. In 1996 she received an Arts Council of England Writer's Award. She lives in Liverpool, where she lectures at the University of Liverpool. Deryn Rees-Jones's new collection won a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. It explores relationships with men and the wider cultural constructions of masculinity In poems such as "Making Out, " and "From His Coy Mistress, " the dilemmas of modern women are confronted with dark humor and sharp technique in a series of blistering narratives, while intensely realized love poems chart the passionate initiation of new relationships. Love, in all its permutations, suffuses the book, and sensuous details abound. Rees-Jones's first collection, The Memory Tray, was shortlisted for a Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Signs Round a Dead Body (Paperback)
• Publisher: Poetry Wales Press, Bridgend
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854112414
• ISBN 13: 9781854112415
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Deryn Rees-Jones's new collection won a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. It explores relationships with men and the wider cultural constructions of masculinity In poems such as Making Out, and From His Coy Mistress, the dilemmas of modern women are confronted with dark humor and sharp technique in a series of blistering narratives, while intensely realized love poems chart the passionate initiation of new relationships. Love, in all its permutations, suffuses the book, and sensuous details abound. Rees-Jones's first collection, The Memory Tray, was shortlisted for a Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection.

Review

Atlantis
A Brief Inventory Of Facts About Snow
Calcium
The Fish
From His Coy Mistress
Horoscopes
An Indian Summer
Making Out
Midnight Beach At Sizewell B
My Father's Hair
Natural Selection
The One That Got Away
The Oral Tradition
The Policeman's Daughter
Sheep Piece: 1. The Couple
Sheep Piece: 2. The Sheep
Sheep Piece: 3. The Photograph
Signs Round A Dead Body
Snow Song
Song For Rain
Song For The Absence Of Her Lover's Voice
Song For The End Of Summer
Song For Winter
Song In Praise Of Running By The Sea
Song In Praise Of The Art Of Flight
Song To Noise
Songs For The Weather: 1. Modal Auxiliaries
Songs For The Weather: 2. A Day At The Beach
Songs For The Weather: 3. Cirrus, Cumulus, Stratus, Nimbus
Songs For The Weather: 4. A Kind Of Dance
Songs For The Weather: 5. Listening For The Sea
Songs For The Weather: 6. A Camera Obscura
Songs For The Weather: 7. I Am / Just Is
Songs Of Despair
Spells
What It's Like To Be Alive
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®