Inside the Wave
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (608 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1780373589 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Inside the Wave is British poet Helen Dunmore's first new poetry book since The Malarkey (2012), whose title-poem won the National Poetry Competition. Poems about mortality, illness, being alive, and the borderline between the living human world and the underworld. Helen Dunmore is also the author of 15 novels.
Her poem 'The Malarkey' won the 2010 National Poetry Competition. She has published twelve novels and three books of short stories with Penguin, including A Spell of Winter (1995), winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction Talking to the Dead (1996), The Siege (2001), Mourning Ruby (2003), House of Orphans (2006) and The Betrayal (2010), as well as The Greatcoat (2012) with Hammer, and The Lie (2014),
'This traffic between the everyday and mortality requires a perfect control of tone, neither sententious nor sentimental in this familiar setting In its uninsistent but authoritative way, The Malarkey is a condition-of-England book, driven by a concern for those who have little purchase on their own lives The Malarkey is Helen Dunmore's best collection, the work of a grown-up for grown-ups who will remember what in the nature of things they've had to lose and what nevertheless they seek to celebrate' - Sean O'Brien, Guardian; 'What is wonderful is the unusual way her steadiness as a writer serves as a foil to the mysterious. She prefers to show, not tellThe passing of time is crucial in this collection and especially its most violent trick of making years disappear in a momenta collection filled with extraordinary, incorporeal moments and with