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Sandgrain and Hourglass
Penelope Shuttle
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Description for Sandgrain and Hourglass
Paperback. New collection of poems relating to grief and loss in particular by one of Britain's leading poets. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 206. 125pp
A poem can remove the thorn from any lion's paw - but by the same token a poet may have to ask the lion to tend her wound. Penelope Shuttle's new collection, "Sandgrain and Hourglass", charts a variety of transactions between poet-self and wound, between wound and beast. A major preoccupation is her continuing experience of loss, particularly the way time modulates and redefines grief. Some aspects of human experience can be too painful or difficult to bear except through poetry. As Ted Hughes said, "poetry is a way of speaking to people we've lost when it is too late". ... Read more
A poem can remove the thorn from any lion's paw - but by the same token a poet may have to ask the lion to tend her wound. Penelope Shuttle's new collection, "Sandgrain and Hourglass", charts a variety of transactions between poet-self and wound, between wound and beast. A major preoccupation is her continuing experience of loss, particularly the way time modulates and redefines grief. Some aspects of human experience can be too painful or difficult to bear except through poetry. As Ted Hughes said, "poetry is a way of speaking to people we've lost when it is too late". ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248826
SKU
9781852248826
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About Penelope Shuttle
Penelope Shuttle has lived in Cornwall since 1970, is the widow of the poet Peter Redgrove. Her first collection of poems, The Orchard Upstairs (1981) was followed by six other books from Oxford University Press, The Child-Stealer (1983), The Lion from Rio (1986), Adventures with My Horse (1988), Taxing the Rain (1994), Building a City for Jamie (1996) and Selected ... Read more
Reviews for Sandgrain and Hourglass
"Shuttle's originality is everywhere evident, her response to loss both surprising and moving" - Stephen Knight, Independent on Sunday. "'Her poems of mourning...are among the best she has written" - Elaine Feinstein, The Times. "A wonderful book of poetry of love and loss by Penelope Shuttle about her late husband, poet Peter Redgrove. It spoke to me very strongly, having ... Read more