Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry - ISBN: 9780571331321
Paperback
Grief and humour collide, exploring loss in this edgy, powerful poetry.

Stranger, Baby

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  • Paperback

    72 pages

  • Release Date

    22 February 2017

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Summary

‘The loss of a mother must be something very strange’, observed Sigmund Freud, a reflection that haunts this intense and powerful new book.

Emily Berry’s Dear Boy was described as a ‘blazing debut’, winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013.

Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which she has become known. But these poems delve deeper again, in their off-kilter and of…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780571331321
ISBN-10:0571331327
Author:Emily Berry
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Imprint:Faber & Faber
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:72
Edition:Main
Release Date:22 February 2017
Weight:95g
Dimensions:5mm x 130mm x 195mm
Series:Faber Poetry
A-Format
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry - ISBN: 9780571331321
130 × 195 mm
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C-Format
A4
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About The Author

Emily Berry

Emily Berry’s first book of poems is Dear Boy, which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Hawthornden Prize. She is a contributor to The Breakfast Bible (a compendium of breakfasts) and editor of Best British Poetry 2015 (Salt Publishing). She is the editor of Poetry Review.

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