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The Silence Living in Houses
Esther Morgan
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Description for The Silence Living in Houses
Paperback. 'The Silence Living in Houses' unlocks the doors to houses of secrets and dreams where ghosts of the past are more real than the living. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 6. Weight in Grams: 108.
The Silence Living in Houses unlocks the doors to houses of secrets and dreams where ghosts of the past are more real than the living. In unsettling poems rich with intrigue, Esther Morgan traces the presence of those whose stories are fading like the wallpaper: the servant girl who smashed the dinner service and disappeared; the sisters whose macabre end is still spoken of in whispers; the mistress who breathes sweet nothings from behind the roses. At the heart of the book is the darkest of interiors where the threat and practice of violence forges a bond as unbreakable as ... Read more
The Silence Living in Houses unlocks the doors to houses of secrets and dreams where ghosts of the past are more real than the living. In unsettling poems rich with intrigue, Esther Morgan traces the presence of those whose stories are fading like the wallpaper: the servant girl who smashed the dinner service and disappeared; the sisters whose macabre end is still spoken of in whispers; the mistress who breathes sweet nothings from behind the roses. At the heart of the book is the darkest of interiors where the threat and practice of violence forges a bond as unbreakable as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852247119
SKU
V9781852247119
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Ref
99-15
About Esther Morgan
Esther Morgan was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. She first started writing poetry while working as a volunteer at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, Cumbria. After completing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 1997, she taught on UEA’s undergraduate creative writing course and for the Department of Continuing Education. During her time at UEA Morgan ... Read more
Reviews for The Silence Living in Houses
Esther Morgan's poems are full of hints and mysteries ...But there are joys here as well as anxieties, and it is the two that amplify each other into such clear, poignant and resonant shapes.
George Szirtes Morgan's voice is gentle and sensuous, lingering over images of beauty as well as horror... Her language is delicate, her images and metaphors ... Read more
George Szirtes Morgan's voice is gentle and sensuous, lingering over images of beauty as well as horror... Her language is delicate, her images and metaphors ... Read more