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Description for Of Mutability
paperback. Collects poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 5. Weight in Grams: 84.
Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation. In Of Mutability, Shapcott is found writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people - these poems look freshly but squarely at mortality. By turns grave and playful, arresting and witty, the ... Read more
Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation. In Of Mutability, Shapcott is found writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people - these poems look freshly but squarely at mortality. By turns grave and playful, arresting and witty, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571254712
SKU
9780571254712
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About Jo Shapcott
Jo Shapcott was born in London. Poems from her three award-winning collections, Electroplating the Baby (1988), Phrase Book (1992) and My Life Asleep (1998) are gathered in a selected poems, Her Book (2000). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the ... Read more
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