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The Shape of a Forest
Jemma L. King
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Description for The Shape of a Forest
Paperback. Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award, the Roland Mathias Award and the Welsh Book of the Year Award, The Shape of a Forest is a powerful survey of life and of human experience that spans centuries and the continents. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 204 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
Haunting, distinctive, sophisticated and sensual, The Shape of a Forest moves evocatively from the historical to the contemporary: Genghis Kahn surveys his territory whilst Amelia Earhart disappears into myth. The Belvedere Apollo is dug up heralding the onset of The Renaissance as the Pendle witches are hung in Lancashire, and in tsunami-struck Japanese gardens and New York hotel rooms, lives are loosened like milk teeth. Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award, the Roland Mathias Award and the Welsh Book of the Year Award, The Shape of a Forest is a powerful survey of life and of human experience that ... Read more
Haunting, distinctive, sophisticated and sensual, The Shape of a Forest moves evocatively from the historical to the contemporary: Genghis Kahn surveys his territory whilst Amelia Earhart disappears into myth. The Belvedere Apollo is dug up heralding the onset of The Renaissance as the Pendle witches are hung in Lancashire, and in tsunami-struck Japanese gardens and New York hotel rooms, lives are loosened like milk teeth. Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award, the Roland Mathias Award and the Welsh Book of the Year Award, The Shape of a Forest is a powerful survey of life and of human experience that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
119g
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910409787
SKU
V9781910409787
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About Jemma L. King
Jemma L. King teaches literature and creative writing at Aberystwyth University where she also completed her doctoral thesis. Winner of the Terry Hetherington Award for young writers in 2011, she has published her creative and academic work internationally. She is a founding member of the Centre for Women, Writing and Literary Culture and is a reviewer of contemporary literature for ... Read more
Reviews for The Shape of a Forest
'beautifully structured poetry - unsettling, unnerving, illuminating.' Jane MacNamee 'A collection of great linguistic simplicity, and ornate strength... inspiring' Bare Fiction 'The author of this powerful poetry debut...is one to watch closely ... The Shape of a Forest [is] both fleeting and resonant, both passionate and quiet, and I would advise you to get your hands ... Read more