Matthew Hollis

Earth House

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this long awaited second collection, Matthew Hollis evokes the landscape, language and ecology of the isles of Britain and Ireland to explore how our most intimate moments have resonance in the wider cycle of life. What emerges is a moving meditation on time and the transformative phases of nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 182g
• ISBN-13: 9781780376226
• ISBN-10: 1780376227
• Artikelnr.: 69434102

Autorenporträt

Matthew Hollis was born in Norwich in 1971, and now lives in London. After its shortlisting for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, his first full-length collection Ground Water (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award (the first time for a poetry book) and for the Whitbread Poetry Award. Ground Water was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In 2016 he published two limited letterpress and hand-made pamphlets, Stones (Incline Press) and East (Clutag Press). His second book-length collection, Earth House, is published by Bloodaxe in 2023. His biography, Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas (Faber, UK, 2011; Norton, US, 2012), won the Costa Biography Award, the H.W. Fisher Biography Award and a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction, and was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Biography of the Year. His second "biography", The Waste Land: The Biography of a Poem, was published by Faber in the UK and Norton in the US in 2022. He is also co-editor of Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (Bloodaxe Books, 2000), and editor of the Selected Poems of Edward Thomas (Faber, 2011).