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The black place
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- Book Synopsis
- The Black Place is dark and gorgeously multi-faceted artwork, like a black diamond. Tamar Yoseloff is a gifted contrarian: she eschews the sentimental, embraces alternatives, is always offering us antidotes to cheery capitalist hype. But there is a sort of dark grandeur to her view of mortality, one that matches the sublime desert painting of the same name by Georgia O'Keeffe which inspires the title poem. The central sequence in this collection is 'Cuts' which is a characteristically tough look at the poet's cancer diagnosis and treatment: "The consultant says 'carcinoma' - the word a missile…". The diagnosis arrives at the same time as the Grenfell Tower fire disaster, a public trauma overshadowing a private one. These poems focus on the strangeness of the illness, they refuse to offer panaceas or consolations. There are also some formally inventive 'redacted' poems that are blacked-out except for key words that float ominously within their depths.
- About The Author
- Tamar Yoseloff was born in the US and moved to London in 1987. She ran the Terrible Beauty reading series at the Troubadour Coffee House, before joining the Poetry School as Programme Coordinator. She is currently a core tutor at the Poetry School. Her debut book, Sweetheart, won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and was a PBS Commendation. Her collection A Formula for Night: New and Selected Poems (Seren) was published in 2015. She is also the author of Formerly (the inaugural chapbook from her publishing venture, Hercules Editions), incorporating photographs by Vici MacDonald and shortlisted for the 2012 Ted Hughes Award; two collaborative editions with the artist Linda Karshan (Marks, published by Pratt Original Editions in 2007 and Desire Paths, published in an edition of 10 by Galerie Hein Elferink in 2012) and Nowheres, a privately-produced book with the artist Charlotte Harker in 2015. Both Formerly and Nowheres were featured in exhibitions at the Poetry Café, and Formerly was also the basis for an exhibition at the National Poetry Library.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781781725597
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Seren, (21 October 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 58
- Weight
- 100 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 138 x 216 x 12 mm
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