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Bunny
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Product Description
A collection of blackly comic poems set in the haunted house of adolescence. Bunny tells the intimate story of a young girl, growing up in London during the 50's in an atmosphere of madness and menace, shame and blame.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #327721 in Books
- Published on: 2001-08-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 80 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Won her first prize in the Avron/ observer international poetry competition in 1988. Her poetry books include A Little Book of Meat (1993)Violet (1997) and others. Violet was short listed for three of the UK major poetry prizes, the forward prize the T.S Eliot Prize and the whitebread Award.
Customer Reviews
Good writing but fragmentary
I found these poems very difficult to get into, partly because I felt they were so fragmentary. The idea is very good, but I don't feel it's been fully realised in this work. In some poems, it was almost as if the shortness itself was acting as a barrier to the reader.
However, the images and their juxtaposition are certainly interesting (thus the 3 star rating), and I would try this author again. I don't think I'd recommend this particular book though.
Strange and wonderful
This book sends the reader spiralling through a strange and sinister world of lodgers, animals and spinster aunts. The poems are glimpses of a young girl who is physically and mentally vulnerable but who finds strength through this creative expression of her fears and experiences. The serious subject matter of this volume belies the strain of surreal humour which runs through the poems making this book easy to devour in one sitting. These poems are short, very short, and the poet is to be commended on her brave innovative style which pares down experience to a single bold image. Easily deserved the Whitbread prize for poetry this year.
Distracting Titles
I found the titles somewhat distracting when reading these poems as I found I got to the stage I was waiting for the title word to pop out of the poem which got somewhat predictable and boring. Nice idea but lacking in depth.
