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Life Under Water
Maura Dooley
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Description for Life Under Water
Paperback. Features poems that take in the physical landscape, family and friendship, as well as the transience of both folklore and politics. This work, in part, is an attempt to speak of what is submerged, they welcome that 'splash of cold water to the face' that tells us we're alive. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 108.
Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in "Poetry Review") admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam Thorpe praised her ability 'to enact images for complex feelings...Her poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable toughness...she manages to combine detailed domesticity with lyrical beauty, most perfectly in the metaphor of memory ' - "Literary Review". These new poems take in the physical landscape, family and friendship, as well as the transience of both folklore and politics. In part, an ... Read more
Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in "Poetry Review") admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam Thorpe praised her ability 'to enact images for complex feelings...Her poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable toughness...she manages to combine detailed domesticity with lyrical beauty, most perfectly in the metaphor of memory ' - "Literary Review". These new poems take in the physical landscape, family and friendship, as well as the transience of both folklore and politics. In part, an ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
108g
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248178
SKU
V9781852248178
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About Maura Dooley
Maura Dooley was born in Truro, grew up in Bristol, worked for some years in Yorkshire, and has lived in London for the past 25 years. She is a freelance writer and lectures at Goldsmiths’ College. She edited Making for Planet Alice: New Women Poets (1997) and The Honey Gatherers: A Book of Love Poems (2002) for Bloodaxe, and How ... Read more
Reviews for Life Under Water
Sound Barrier...demonstrates beautifully the strength of this deceptively delicate, often very tender poet: how she marries spare lyrical cadences with political scepticism, packing a whole gamut of wit and sharp observation into very little space.
Ruth Padel
Financial Times
Kissing a Bone, her second collection, adds a shrewd historicising sense to the lyric tenderness which glowed in ... Read more
Ruth Padel
Financial Times
Kissing a Bone, her second collection, adds a shrewd historicising sense to the lyric tenderness which glowed in ... Read more