Claire Crowther

Broschiertes Buch

The Clockwork Gift

Beschreibung

'The Clockwork Gift' is Claire Crowther's second collection of poems, following 'Stretch of Closures' which was shortlisted for the Jerwood/Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection in 2007. The poems in 'The Clockwork Gift' continue the lyrical and reflective voice of the previous volume and examine the place of older women in contemporary culture. Claire Crowther combines a control of rhetoric with myth-making skill and these poems include striking new figures such as the yellow-furred thike and its human cousin, or the countrywoman who answers the call of Maleficence. This is also the landscape of looking back; memory is a faculty idolised in our time and shown here to be as fragile as the stuff of grandmother's dresses yet tough enough to bond complex human relationships.

Autor

Claire Crowther's poems and reviews have appeared in journals including London Review of Books, Long Poem, New Statesman, PN Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Shearsman, The Times Literary Supplement and also online at Blackbox Manifold, Molly Bloom, Qualm. Her poems have been widely anthologised including in The Best British Poetry 2013 (Salt, 2013) and The Best British Poetry 2015 (Salt, 2015). She has published five pamphlets and five full collections and was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Best First Collection prize.As an undergraduate at Manchester University, she won the Shakespeare Scholarship and the George Gissing Memorial Prize in English Literature. She was awarded a bursary by Kingston University to complete her second book. Claire Crowther was poet in residence at the Royal Mint Museum during 2014-2015. Her resulting pamphlet Bare George was published in June 2016. Claire is Deputy Editor and Reviews Editor at Long Poem Magazine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 119g
• ISBN-13: 9781848610323
• ISBN-10: 1848610327
• Artikelnr.: 25837712