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Red House
Sasha Dugdale
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Description for Red House
Paperback. Evokes the ghosts and presences that flit about on the margins of our lives. This title traces the shapes that they leave through folk song, lament and lyric poetry. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 5. Weight in Grams: 80.
In "Red House", her third collection, Sasha Dugdale evokes the ghosts and presences that flit about on the margins of our lives. She finds them at the edge of towns where superstores and allotments blur an older landscape, in Europe where emigrants leave their gods, their neighbours, their memories 'jettisoned like old clothes'; and across the chalk Downs of her native Sussex. She traces the shapes that they leave through folk song, lament and lyric poetry. Haunted by history, confronted by primal brutalities, the poems in "Red House" proclaim the fierce, bright authenticity that is 'all the proof we need ... Read more
In "Red House", her third collection, Sasha Dugdale evokes the ghosts and presences that flit about on the margins of our lives. She finds them at the edge of towns where superstores and allotments blur an older landscape, in Europe where emigrants leave their gods, their neighbours, their memories 'jettisoned like old clothes'; and across the chalk Downs of her native Sussex. She traces the shapes that they leave through folk song, lament and lyric poetry. Haunted by history, confronted by primal brutalities, the poems in "Red House" proclaim the fierce, bright authenticity that is 'all the proof we need ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
79g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906188023
SKU
V9781906188023
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Ref
99-25
About Sasha Dugdale
Sasha Dugdale was born in Sussex. Between 1995 and 2000 she lived and worked in Russia. In 1999 she initiated the Russian theatre New Writing project with the Royal Court theatre, London, for whom she translated numerous Russian plays. Her translation of Plasticine by Vassily Sigarev won the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2002, and in 2004 ... Read more
Reviews for Red House
"Sasha Dugdale is a poet of great subtlety and rare formal resource." Paul Batchelor, "North"