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Yelp!
Liz Almond
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Description for Yelp!
Paperback. A collection of poems about regeneration, recuperation, reclamation and retreat, in which the poet reflects on visits, both literal and virtual, to remote parts of Greece, Andalucia and Southern India. Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 140.
Rituals of travel are at the heart of Liz Almond's work; and travel, in her poems, can start anywhere: through a computer screen offering access to a satellite view of continents, to a pencil hovering like a bee at the start of a poem about a zoo for husbands. Departures and arrivals, free exchanges of words at the border controls of language - all these feed into poems that embody a rich and sensual sense of cultural difference, an understanding of the scale and fragility of our planet. And the imaginative routes she opens for us are full of surprises: ... Read more
Rituals of travel are at the heart of Liz Almond's work; and travel, in her poems, can start anywhere: through a computer screen offering access to a satellite view of continents, to a pencil hovering like a bee at the start of a poem about a zoo for husbands. Departures and arrivals, free exchanges of words at the border controls of language - all these feed into poems that embody a rich and sensual sense of cultural difference, an understanding of the scale and fragility of our planet. And the imaginative routes she opens for us are full of surprises: ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Arc Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
94
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
94
Place of Publication
Lancs, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904614388
SKU
V9781904614388
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Ref
99-1
About Liz Almond
Liz Almond was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grew up in South London, and has lived for many years in Hebden Bridge. She has taught Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University's Alsager Faculty and at the University of Huddersfield. 'Yelp!' is her second collection of poems to be published, her first collection, 'The Shut Drawer', appearing in 2002 from Arc.
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