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The Shape of a Forest
Jemma L. King
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Description for The Shape of a Forest
Paperback. 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: 133 x 204 x 7. Weight in Grams: 100.
These poems of desire, loss and revenge explore lives caught in the gravity of their own orbit. Haunting, distinctive and sensual, debut poetry collection The Shape of a Forest has unblinking scope. This sophisticated debut collection moves from the historical to the contemporary: Genghis Kahn surveys his territory whilst Amelia Earhart disappears to myth. The Belvedere Apollo is dug up heralding the onset of The Renaissance as a tiger meets a foe in a Siberian Forest, the Pendle witches are hung in Lancashire, and in tsunami-struck Japanese gardens, South Sea islands and New York hotel rooms, lives are loosened ... Read more
These poems of desire, loss and revenge explore lives caught in the gravity of their own orbit. Haunting, distinctive and sensual, debut poetry collection The Shape of a Forest has unblinking scope. This sophisticated debut collection moves from the historical to the contemporary: Genghis Kahn surveys his territory whilst Amelia Earhart disappears to myth. The Belvedere Apollo is dug up heralding the onset of The Renaissance as a tiger meets a foe in a Siberian Forest, the Pendle witches are hung in Lancashire, and in tsunami-struck Japanese gardens, South Sea islands and New York hotel rooms, lives are loosened ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908069894
SKU
V9781908069894
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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
"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 on it" New Welsh Review "The poet's skill here and throughout is to use language sparingly, yet tugging at every chord...striking through pleasant ... Read more