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Track
Annemarie Austin
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Description for Track
Paperback. Annemarie Austin's sixth book of poetry from Bloodaxe. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 7. Weight in Grams: 132.
Annemarie Austin's vividly imaginative poems explore other worlds and other lives, drawing upon her own memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and literature. Track is her first new collection since her Bloodaxe retrospective Very: New & Selected Poems (2008). There are journeys here. The track may be a railway or a path, and perhaps there's one main route - to the boiler house. There are figures seen on their way and those standing still - the living statue, the woman in camera and the one who's reached the last resort. And creatures too, mourning ... Read more
Annemarie Austin's vividly imaginative poems explore other worlds and other lives, drawing upon her own memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and literature. Track is her first new collection since her Bloodaxe retrospective Very: New & Selected Poems (2008). There are journeys here. The track may be a railway or a path, and perhaps there's one main route - to the boiler house. There are figures seen on their way and those standing still - the living statue, the woman in camera and the one who's reached the last resort. And creatures too, mourning ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249922
SKU
V9781852249922
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About Annemarie Austin
Annemarie Austin was born in Devon and grew up on the Somerset Levels and in Weston-super-Mare, where has lived for most of her life. She won the Cheltenham Literature Festival Poetry Competition in 1980, and her first collection, The Weather Coming (1987), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Very: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008) includes work from all ... Read more
Reviews for Track
'Austin is a fable maker. Hers is a poetry of parts held together by powerfully imagined dream associations. As her world deliquesces and reforms, her imagination breathes life into other people in other times, weirdly authenticating the material she draws from history' - Anne Stevenson. 'Annemarie Austin's world is one of doubles and reflections...she is deeply engaged with shifting perspectives ... Read more