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What it's like to be alive
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- Book Synopsis
- What It's Like to Be Alive: Selected Poems marks a career milestone for the highly-acclaimed Liverpool based poet, Deryn Rees-Jones. Readers will find generous selections from her previously published prize-winning individual collections. These poems are intimately lyrical and possessed of a 'devastating emotional power' -John Burnside.
- About The Author
- Deryn Rees-Jones was born in Liverpool, and educated in North Wales and London. She is the author of 7 collections of poetry including 'The Memory Tray' (1995) which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She has twice been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize with her collections 'Burying the Wren' (2012) and 'Erato' (2019) which were also Poetry Book Society Recommendations. She edited the influential anthology 'Modern Women Poets' for Bloodaxe. She has received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors and was picked as one of the top ten women poets of the decade in Mslexia magazine. She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool where she co-directs the Centre for New and International Writing, and edits the Pavilion Poetry Series for Liverpool University Press.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781781723388
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Seren, (05 September 2016)
- Weight
- 278 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 138 x 17 mm
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