Product Description

As in her fiction, these haunting narratives draw us into darkness, engaging our fears and hopes in poetry of rare luminosity. Dunmore's poems also cast a bright, revealing light on the living world, by land and sea, on love, longing, and loss. Out of the Blue presents a comprehensive selection from her seven previous books of poetry. It also includes a collection of completely new poems remarkable for their sensuous magic, sharp delicacy, and sureness of touch.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #277497 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
An electrifying and original talent, a writer whose style is characterised by a lyrical, dreamy intensity. --Guardian

One of this country's finest literary talents. --Daily Telegraph

Dunmore gets a wonderful balance between delicate, exact, surprising language and very strong thought - which may be bitter, sardonic, or violent, tender, or wildly imaginative, but is always generous… A lovely poetic electricity runs through her poems. --Sean O'Brien & Ruth Padel, PBS Bulletin

About the Author
Helen Dunmore is a poet, novelist and children's writer. Her poetry books have been given the Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendations, Cardiff International Poetry Prize, Alice Hunt Bartlett Award and Signal Poetry Award, and Bestiary was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her latest Bloodaxe poetry titles are Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001 (2001) and Glad of These Times (2007). She has published ten novels and three books of short stories with Viking Penguin, including A Spell of Winter (1995), Talking to the Dead (1996), The Siege (2001), Mourning Ruby (2003), House of Orphans (2006) and Counting the Stars (2008). She lives in Bristol.