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Don't Mention This to Anyone
Tessa Ransford
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Description for Don't Mention This to Anyone
Paperback. A collection of poems about India and Pakistan based on the personal experiences and memories of the writer, interspersed with commentary and biography. Num Pages: 126 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 212 x 8. Weight in Grams: 142.
Inspired by the rediscovery of an Urdu phrasebook, Ransford takes the reader on a journey to explore the differences between ‘then’ and ‘now’, linking the reader to a world now lost to most. These poems question what it is to be both British and Indian, drawing on the author’s memories and experiences to celebrate and uncover an ‘Indian’ self. This collection of poems reveals the influences that have been formative over four decades of Tessa Ransford’s writings.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
Number of Pages
126
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908373182
SKU
V9781908373182
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Ref
99-12
About Tessa Ransford
TESSA RANSFORD is an established poet, translator, literary editor, and has worked as a cultural activist on many fronts over the last forty years. She founded and was the first director of the Scottish Poetry Library. Tessa initiated the annual Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for publishers of pamphlet poetry in Scotland, now in its twelfth year, with the attendant fairs ... Read more
Reviews for Don't Mention This to Anyone
Ransford is an eclectic and committed poet; eclectic in her willingness to absorb whatever tradition of thought or craft fits her immediate purpose and committed to what have seemed to her inescapable spiritual and aesthetic truths. SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS Ransford takes the reader on a journey to explore the differences between ‘then’ and ‘now’, linking ... Read more