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The Mirabelles (Picador Poetry)
Annie Freud
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Description for The Mirabelles (Picador Poetry)
Paperback. An exciting new collection from the prize-winning poet Annie Freud - A PBS Choice Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 110.
Annie Freud's award-winning first collection, The Best Man That Ever Was, introduced readers to a remarkably versatile new voice; The Mirabelles delivers a similarly exhilarating cornucopia - the Mask of Temporary Madness, Marc Almond, mini-novels a sonnet long, Carottes Vichy, and the most gripping account of a billiard game you'll ever read. However, in a new sequence derived from family letters, Freud has invented almost a new kind of writing: neither `found' nor `made' in the conventional sense, these poems are profoundly moving, and startling in their boldly unfashionable lack of irony. Elsewhere The Mirabelles is ... Read more
Annie Freud's award-winning first collection, The Best Man That Ever Was, introduced readers to a remarkably versatile new voice; The Mirabelles delivers a similarly exhilarating cornucopia - the Mask of Temporary Madness, Marc Almond, mini-novels a sonnet long, Carottes Vichy, and the most gripping account of a billiard game you'll ever read. However, in a new sequence derived from family letters, Freud has invented almost a new kind of writing: neither `found' nor `made' in the conventional sense, these poems are profoundly moving, and startling in their boldly unfashionable lack of irony. Elsewhere The Mirabelles is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Macmillan UK
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330519076
SKU
V9780330519076
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About Annie Freud
Annie Freud studied English and European Literature at the University of Warwick. Her first collection The Best Man That Ever Was received the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award. She is a tutor in poetry writing and lives in Dorset with her husband.
Reviews for The Mirabelles (Picador Poetry)
Original, moving, smart and memorable.
Andrew Motion, author, In the Blood Original, moving, smart and memorable. Andrew Motion, author, In the Blood
Andrew Motion, author, In the Blood Original, moving, smart and memorable. Andrew Motion, author, In the Blood