Michael Symmons Roberts

Ransom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A FINANCIAL TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK Ransom, the new collection from Michael Symmons Roberts, is an intense and vivid exploration of liberty and limit, of what it means to be alive, and searches for the possibility of hope in a fallen, wounded world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 131mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 128g
• ISBN-13: 9781787333123
• ISBN-10: 1787333124
• Artikelnr.: 60551575

Autorenporträt

Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1963. His books of poetry have won many awards including the Forward Prize and the Costa Poetry Award for Drysalter (2013) and the Whitbread Poetry Prize for Corpus (2004). His Selected Poems was published by Cape in 2016. As a librettist, his work with composers has been performed in concert halls and opera houses around the world. The Sacrifice (for Welsh National Opera) with composer James MacMillan, won an RPS Award for Opera, and choral works Elliptics (for BBC Philharmonic) and The Anvil (for Manchester International Festival) with composer Emily Howard, were both nominated for Ivor Novello Awards. His non-fiction book Edgelands (with Paul Farley, 2011) won the Foyles Book of Ideas Award and the Jerwood Prize. He is an award-winning broadcaster and dramatist, Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.