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The Striped World
Emma Jones
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Description for The Striped World
Paperback. With their tidal imagination, this title features poems that sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 6. Weight in Grams: 88.
With their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands. Emma Jones brings her inventive worlds dramatically to life in a series of vividly distilled meetings - of settlers and indigenous peoples, of seawaters and shore, of humanity and the wilds of nature. Here, tigers stalk the captive and the free, while Death encounters his own double and Daphne tells of her new leaves, 'They sing, and make the world.' The same might be said of the poems themselves in ... Read more
With their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands. Emma Jones brings her inventive worlds dramatically to life in a series of vividly distilled meetings - of settlers and indigenous peoples, of seawaters and shore, of humanity and the wilds of nature. Here, tigers stalk the captive and the free, while Death encounters his own double and Daphne tells of her new leaves, 'They sing, and make the world.' The same might be said of the poems themselves in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571245383
SKU
V9780571245383
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-44
About Emma Jones
Emma Jones was born in Sydney to an Australian father and British mother, and studied at the universities of Sydney and Cambridge. Her first book, The Striped World, has won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Collection and is shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She is currently poet-in-residence at the ... Read more
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