Vandemonian (eBook, ePUB) - Forshaw, Cliff
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Vandemonian is a detailed, impassioned poetic history of Van Dieman's land, Tasmania. Poems in a variety of voices lay out the island's early story, exploring the truths of colonisation. Forshaw blends historical fact, imagined events and contemporary reflection with religion, geography and the great unknown to produce a portrait of discovery, disenfranchisement and extinction. "An imagination like no other, transforming the world you thought you knew" Jon Stallworthy "These are poems captained by a large intelligence and abundant lexical vigour, poems of voyage, exertion and…mehr

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Vandemonian is a detailed, impassioned poetic history of Van Dieman's land, Tasmania. Poems in a variety of voices lay out the island's early story, exploring the truths of colonisation. Forshaw blends historical fact, imagined events and contemporary reflection with religion, geography and the great unknown to produce a portrait of discovery, disenfranchisement and extinction. "An imagination like no other, transforming the world you thought you knew" Jon Stallworthy "These are poems captained by a large intelligence and abundant lexical vigour, poems of voyage, exertion and discovery." Carol Rumens on Wake Cliff Forshaw now teaches at Hull University. A former winner of the Welsh Academi John Tripp Award, and Blue Nose Poet of the Year, his pamphlet Wake was joint-winner of the Flarestack Pamphlet Competition in 2009. His latest chapbook, Tiger (Happenstance, 2011), about the Tasmanian Tiger, came out of his term as International Writer-in-Residence at Hobart. This book is also available as an ebook: buy it from Amazon for here.
Autorenporträt
Cliff Forshaw left school at sixteen and worked in an abattoir before studying painting at art college and developing an interest in languages and European literatures at Warwick University. After various jobs in Spain, Mexico, Italy, Germany and New York, and freelance writing in London, he took an MA with Distinction in Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, London, and completed a doctorate on Elizabethan satireat Oxford. Since then,he has lived in Snowdonia and Yorkshire, and taught at Bangor, Sheffield and, from 2005, Hull University. Cliff hasbeen a writer-in-residence in California, Transylvania and Tasmania; twice a Hawthornden Writing Fellow; and winner of the Welsh Academi John Tripp Award. His collections include 'Trans' (The Collective Press, Wales 2005) which culminates in a rewriting of the Metamorphoses - Ovid meets a gross-out freak circus to chat about everything from bodily modification to virtual survival. A recent chapbook 'Wakewas' joint-winner of the Flarestack Pamphlet Prize 2009. Cliff continues to paint, and his work has been exhibited in the UK and USA. He has also made two short films to accompany poetry collaborations:Drift was shown at the Humber Mouth Literature Festival 2008; 'Under Travelling Skies' (Kingston Press, 2012) won the first Larkin 25 Words award in 2012. He has edited and contributed poems, paintings, photographs and other artwork to half-a-dozen collaborative projects focusing on Hull and the surrounding coast, the most recent being the Humber Mouth Festival Major Commission Sketches, Dispatches, Hull Tales and Ballads (Kingston Press 2012). He has published translations from a number of languages, and contributed to books on translation and myth. Recently translations of Cliff's own poems, into Chinese and Romanian, have also started to appear. He also writes fiction.