Product Description

A celebrated winner of fiction's Orange Prize, Helen Dunmore is as spellbinding a storyteller in her poetry as in her novels. "Glad of These Times" is full of haunting, joyous and wry narratives. These new poems explore the fleetingness of life, its sweetness and intensity, the short time we have on earth and the pleasures of the earth, and death as the frame which sharpens everything and gives it shape. "Glad of These Times" is Helen Dunmore's first poetry book since "Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001", a comprehensive selection drawing on seven previous collections. It brings together poems of great lyricism, feeling and artistry.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #536281 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 56 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.