- Paperback: 46 pages
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus; 1st ed. edition (18 Jan 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0701163321
- ISBN-13: 978-0701163327
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 12.8 x 0.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 745,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A first collection of poems from Kate Clanchy, covering such subjects as relationships between men and women, married men, self-sufficient men and wounded men. Other poems are about memory and time set in school classrooms and muddy sports fields, and haunting, tender love poems.
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Clanchy’s verse is immediate and musical, and informed by an acute, ironic intelligence. These are poems about men and boys: married men, self-sufficient men, wounded men, and men ‘who own/the earth and love it'; poems about memory and time, set in school classrooms and muddy sports fields; and haunting, tender love poems. Clanchy’s second collection, Samarkand, was described variously as ‘enduringly readable’ (Time Out) and ‘very rewarding’ (Times Literary Supplement). With these two collections, Clanchy has established herself as one of the most impressive – and enjoyable – of contemporary poets. ‘Kate Clanchy is a real discovery. It’s possible to imagine her becoming a genuinely popular poet, not because she writes down to her audience, but because she writes of what we know in such a way that we come to know it better, more sharply, in better colours’ Helen Dunmore
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Format:Paperback
Two things about Kate I've got from the fascinating interview on Horizon Review* ('I found the idea that I was a writer rather muddling', 'it doesn't especially suit me to be out of life', 'I find speaking to adults very easy, because they're not going to throw chewing gum at you'): she didn't start writing poetry till she was 27 or 28, though she naturally read masses, and the book under review is basically the first forty poems she ever wrote!! Don't try this at home, kids.
I knew she was a class act having read her other two, but this just blew me away. By about the ninth page (The Aerialist) I was practically standing up and applauding - in the tube! - and it never lets up. In the same ball park as Leontia Flynn, emotionally if not technically (Clanchy achieves her effects without rhyme); are men ever so exposed? Sometimes her schoolteacher's-eye-view can illumine her own youth. The Cambridge poem's pretty devastating ('Let Safeways come' or words to that effect!) As a mother of three (sometimes fate bowls you twins) she tends to write prose now. Let's keep hoping
*which we have Salt Publishing to thank for. The interview seems to date from 2008; last October Clanchy was midway through a novel, according to the Oxford Times
I knew she was a class act having read her other two, but this just blew me away. By about the ninth page (The Aerialist) I was practically standing up and applauding - in the tube! - and it never lets up. In the same ball park as Leontia Flynn, emotionally if not technically (Clanchy achieves her effects without rhyme); are men ever so exposed? Sometimes her schoolteacher's-eye-view can illumine her own youth. The Cambridge poem's pretty devastating ('Let Safeways come' or words to that effect!) As a mother of three (sometimes fate bowls you twins) she tends to write prose now. Let's keep hoping
*which we have Salt Publishing to thank for. The interview seems to date from 2008; last October Clanchy was midway through a novel, according to the Oxford Times
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I went to listen to a reading by Kate Clanchy last night. She read a lot from this book & I was blown away by the poetry. I esecially like the love pems at the end of the book. There is a sence of gritty realism beside her romantic imagery that makes the writing quite special.
0 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I purchased this volume recently,on the recommendation of some friends. I wish I hadn't. Clanchy shows a remarkable inability to rhyme her endings or count her syllables. Anyone would think she wasn't trying to!
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