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The Remains
Annie Freud
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Description for The Remains
Paperback. A powerful new collection from the T S Eliot Prize shortlisted Annie Freud, featuring beautiful full-colour illustrations by the poet herself. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 196 x 11. Weight in Grams: 152.
Annie Freud's new book The Remains was inspired by a visit to an exhibition of Sung Dynasty works on paper, and their unselfconscious blending of illustration and poetry. However the book has its imaginative origins in a huge collection of broken household china amassed by the author while digging her garden. Stranger items also came to light: a minute horseshoe, a fossilised scallop shell, a rusted metal silhouette of a hound. These worn shards and talismans soon began work on Freud's singular imagination, and this extraordinary collection of poetry and art is the result. The Remains is concerned with what ... Read more
Annie Freud's new book The Remains was inspired by a visit to an exhibition of Sung Dynasty works on paper, and their unselfconscious blending of illustration and poetry. However the book has its imaginative origins in a huge collection of broken household china amassed by the author while digging her garden. Stranger items also came to light: a minute horseshoe, a fossilised scallop shell, a rusted metal silhouette of a hound. These worn shards and talismans soon began work on Freud's singular imagination, and this extraordinary collection of poetry and art is the result. The Remains is concerned with what ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447271161
SKU
V9781447271161
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Annie Freud
Annie Freud studied English and European Literature at the University of Warwick. Her first collection The Best Man That Ever Was received the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award. Her second collection, The Mirabelles, was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. She is a tutor in poetry writing and lives in Dorset with her husband.
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