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Biographies Etc.
Ruth Silcock
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Description for Biographies Etc.
Paperback. A collection of poems that focus on the lives of ordinary people - children, vicars, orphans, nurses, grannies, social workers at a dance, and old people in residential homes. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 9. Weight in Grams: 136.
Ruth Silcock's third collection continues in cheerful vein about often less than cheerful subjects. She has the knack of combining jaunty traditional forms with sometimes startling or even grim subject matter. Her poems focus on the lives of ordinary people - children, vicars, orphans, nurses, grannies, social workers at a dance, old people in residential homes - and she treats their stories with compassion and humour.
Ruth Silcock's third collection continues in cheerful vein about often less than cheerful subjects. She has the knack of combining jaunty traditional forms with sometimes startling or even grim subject matter. Her poems focus on the lives of ordinary people - children, vicars, orphans, nurses, grannies, social workers at a dance, old people in residential homes - and she treats their stories with compassion and humour.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856463839
SKU
V9780856463839
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-40
About Ruth Silcock
Born in Manchester in 1926, Ruth Silcock read English at Girton College, Cambridge, and later became a psychiatric social worker, working with both adults and children. She has published several children's books. Her previous collections of poems `Mrs. Carmichael' (1987) and `A Wonderful View of the Sea' (1996) were also published by Anvil. A successful radio play, `46 Nursing Homes', ... Read more
Reviews for Biographies Etc.
'There is a potentially popular poetry in England which does not talk down to people or appeal to their self-consciousness, and it is being written by people like Ruth Silcock. Larkin, Betjeman and Stevie Smith would have approved of her poems.'George Szirtes