Bright Travellers
$34.90
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2014
Summary
A collection of poetry from the Eric Gregory Award-winning Fiona Benson.
Winner of the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Winner of the 2015 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection Shortlisted for the 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best First Collection
In this remarkable, intensely moving, first collection, Fiona Benson shows her fascination with human experience. The poems move on archaeological fast-forward from sub…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224099493 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0224099493 |
| Author: | Fiona Benson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2014 |
| Weight: | 98g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 7mm |
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Critics Review
Solemn scrutiny, intoxicating lyricism and a dark imagination.
Solemn scrutiny, intoxicating lyricism and a dark imagination. – Ben Wilkinson * Guardian *
Hugely impressive… [Benson] has the modest exactitude of a true poet. – Kate Kellaway * Observer *
Fiona Benson’s debut collection may have been the most impressive published by a British poet last year. The 45 poems in “Bright Travellers” capture both her versatility…and her sense of balance. Themes of violence and loss, shown most vividly in her accounts of motherhood, are paired seamlessly with moments of great tenderness. * The Economist *
About The Author
Fiona Benson
Fiona Benson lives in Devon with her husband and their two daughters. She has published three previous collections of poetry, all of which were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize: Bright Travellers, which won the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry’s Prize for First Full Collection; Vertigo & Ghost, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize and won both the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection; and Ephemeron, which was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the London Hellenic Prize.
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