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An electrifying and original talent, a writer whose style is characterised by a lyrical, dreamy intensity. --Guardian
One of this country's finest literary talents. --Daily Telegraph
Dunmore gets a wonderful balance between delicate, exact, surprising language and very strong thought -which may be bitter, sardonic, or violent, tender, or wildly imaginative, but is always generous... A lovely poetic electricity runs through her poems. --Sean O'Brien & Ruth Padel, PBS Bulletin
One of this country's finest literary talents. --Daily Telegraph
Dunmore gets a wonderful balance between delicate, exact, surprising language and very strong thought -which may be bitter, sardonic, or violent, tender, or wildly imaginative, but is always generous... A lovely poetic electricity runs through her poems. --Sean O'Brien & Ruth Padel, PBS Bulletin
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A celebrated winner of fiction's Orange Prize, Helen Dunmore is as spellbinding a storyteller in her poetry as in her novels. "Glad of These Times" is full of haunting, joyous and wry narratives. These new poems explore the fleetingness of life, its sweetness and intensity, the short time we have on earth and the pleasures of the earth, and death as the frame which sharpens everything and gives it shape. "Glad of These Times" is Helen Dunmore's first poetry book since "Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001", a comprehensive selection drawing on seven previous collections. It brings together poems of great lyricism, feeling and artistry.
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Especially noteworthy for their lyrical language, the emotional impact, and their literary artistry.
6 Sep 2007
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Compiled and anthologized in "Glad Of These Times", the story-telling free verse poetry of novelist and children's writer Helen Dunmore explores such issues as the fleetingness of life, its sweetness and intensity, the brevity of our time on earth, the pleasures of the earth, death as a frame which sharpens everything in life and gives it an ultimate shape. The poetry comprising this enthusiastically recommended volume of her work have been drawn from seven previously published collections and are especially noteworthy for their lyrical language, the emotional impact, and their literary artistry. 'Odysseus': For those who do not write poems/but have the cause of poems in them:/this thief, sly as Odysseus/who puts out from Albanian waters/into the grape-dark Ionian dawn,/his dirty engine coughing out puffs of black,/to maraud, as his ancestors taught him,/the soft villas of the south
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