Summary
A TLS, SPECTATOR AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
FINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD FOR POETRY 2023
“Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia Hamilton - and of her poetry” Jorie Graham
“Full of delicate and muscular truths and graced with rare intelligence, this posthumous volume offers the gifts of a uniquely sensitive mind” Publisher’s Weekly…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472158741 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472158741 |
| Author: | Saskia Hamilton |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 12 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 152mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
Full of delicate and muscular truths and graced with rare intelligence, this posthumous volume offers the gifts of a uniquely sensitive mind. * Publisher’s Weekly (starred review) *
For [Hamilton], history is made of tiny, intimate moments, and the poems remember the pleasures of museum visits, summer afternoons, conversations with friends… I loved this precise, brave book, and wanted it to keep going – Daniel Swift * Spectator *
‘All Souls is a devastating reminder of one’s own mortality, written by a writer who has gone too soon’ – Shannon Carlin * TIME Magazine *
‘This posthumously published fifth collection faces both the existential problem of our shared mortality and the poet’s own rapidly approaching death with directness and steely grace… A writer of profound literary and emotional intelligence’ – Fiona Sampson * Guardian *
Full of delicate and muscular truths and graced with rare intelligence, this posthumous volume offers the gifts of a uniquely sensitive mind * Publisher’s Weekly (starred review) *
Saskia Hamilton is not a quiet poet, just an extremely subtle and fierce one. There is a quality of spiritual stubbornness and astonishing resilience that courses through even her briefest utterances – Jorie Graham
About The Author
Saskia Hamilton
Saskia Hamilton (1967-2023) was the author of four collections of poetry, As for Dream, Divide These, Corridor, and All Souls. She was the editor of several volumes of poetry and letters, including The Letters of Robert Lowell, and was the co-editor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Her edition of The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle received the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation and the Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters from the Modern Language Association. She was also the recipient of an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She taught for many years at Barnard College.
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