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Shrines of upper Austria
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- Book Synopsis
- Winner of the 2018 Forward (Felix Dennis) Prize for Best First Collection Winner of a 2019 Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors A Poetry Book Society Spring 2018 Recommendation Shortlisted for the 2019 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize Longlisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize Wandering in central Europe, a traveller observes and records a landscape of lakes, folk culture and uneasy histories. Phoebe Power's Shrines of Upper Austria gathers numerous stories and perspectives, such as the fragmented narrative of an Austrian woman who married a British soldier after the Second World War, and the voices of schoolchildren and immigrants. Strange discoveries are made: a grave for two dead goats; a lantern procession on the night of Epiphany; a baby abandoned by a river; a homemade frog-puppet. The poems are a collage of stories and histories, set in a variety of forms and registers. They are attentive to local detail, rich in the names of people and places - Marija, Omegepta, Eck 4 and the Loser Mountain. Mixing poetry and prose, image and narrative, German and English, Power's poems are a celebration of creativity in unlikely places. Against a disquieting backdrop of mild winters and memories of snow, they invite us to question what it means to feel at once a stranger and at home.
- About The Author
- Phoebe Power was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grew up in Cumbria and currently lives in York. She is the author of Shrines of Upper Austria (Carcanet, 2018), which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and a Somerset Maugham Award, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Seamus Heaney Prize, and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Further publications include Sea Change, an illustrated pamphlet based on a commission from the National Trust about the Durham Coast (Guillemot Press, 2021, with Katrina Porteous), and Harp Duet (2016).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781784105341
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Carcanet Poetry, (22 February 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 71
- Weight
- 114 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 x 8 mm
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