Romance
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Published:27th Oct '94
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Ann Sansom’s poetry overturns the reader’s expectations. Her poems often present human dramas in which people are seen as acting out their versions of themselves in their own fictions – what Stanley Cook called ‘an authentic Northern mix of realism and imagination’. Romance was the first book-length collection by a quietly authoritative, resiliently gritty poet whose later collection In Praise of Men and other poems won her many more admirers.
Ann Sansom’s naturally accomplished and instinctively organised poems come as a breath of fresh air in an age when technical contrivance often passes for literary credibility. There is a maturity to her work, a sureness of hand normally associated with only the most established poets, but there is a freshness too, and a bareknuckle confidence that seems to sing of the author’s realisation of poetry as a first language and a mother tongue. -- Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9781852242855
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 133g
80 pages