- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (18 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571201830
- ISBN-13: 978-0571201839
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 644,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Her Book is a generous selection from the first three of Jo Shapcott's award-winning collections of her poetry -Electroplating the Baby, Phrase Book and My Life Asleep. It shows her to be a writer of ingenious, politically acute and provocative imagination, one of the most original and daring voices of her generation.
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Jo Shapcott was born in London. Poems from her three award-winning collections, Electroplating the Baby (1988), Phrase Book (1992) and My Life Asleep (1998) are gathered in a selected poems, Her Book (2000). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition (twice). Tender Taxes, her versions of Rilke, was published in 2001; Of Mutability in 2010.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Her Book: Poems 1988-1998 (Paperback)
This is the definitive collection of Jo Shapcott's poetry from 1988 - 98 and includes some of her most memorable poems, including her wonderful 'Mad Cow' poems and the excellent 'Phrase Book'. If you're not a fan of poetry, this book may make you change your mind.
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This review is from: Her Book: Poems 1988-1998: Poems, 1988-98 (Faber poetry) (Paperback)
One of my all-time favourite books. In common with many of her contemporaries Jo Shapcott is interested in Ovidian shape-shifting, inhabiting the skins of creatures as various as quarks, goats, Greek goddesses and film stars. What sets this book galloping ahead of the field is its manic vitality, its passion and unflinching truthfulness - poems like 'Phrase Book', 'Professional Mourner', 'A Letter to Dennis' and the rightly celebrated Mad Cow sequence (and I could go on) have to be read to be believed. Shapcott's speakers bounce, raspberry and hug their way through a universe eroticized at both the micro and galactic level. 'Go on then, darling, without me' the teasing first poem's speaker whispers to her published volume, 'and be very, very good.' No need to worry there: here is a book to be fanatical about.
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