Love and Variations by Carole Satyamurti
Love can be intensely joyful, but it is rarely straightforward. In this collection, Carole Satyamurti describes the 'stations of love', of its delight and its obsession, as well as its pain and absurdity.
Her Selected Poems shows how a reticent, very personal poetry, dealing with sorrows and tensions we can all recognise, can be both gripping to read and positive in spirit.. Her particular gift is for catching the poignant detail of inescapable human dilemmas and tensions. -- Alan Brownjohn * Sunday Times *
Carole Satyamurti (1939-2019) was a poet, translator and sociologist. For many years she taught at the Tavistock Clinic, where her main academic interest was in the relevance of psychoanalytic ideas to an understanding of the stories people tell about themselves, whether in formal autobiography or in social encounters. She co-edited Acquainted with the Night: psychoanalysis and the poetic imagination (2003). She won the National Poetry Competition in 1986, and a Cholmondeley Award in 2000. Countdown (2011) was her first new collection after Stitching the Dark: New & Selected Poems (2005), which drew on five collections: Broken Moon (1987), Changing the Subject (1990), Striking Distance (1994), Love and Variations (2000), and Stitching the Dark (2005), two of these Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Her translation, Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling (W.W. Norton, 2015), was joint winner of the inaugural Roehampton Poetry Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852245269 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852245263 |
| Title | Love and Variations |
| Author | Carole Satyamurti |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2000-01-21 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
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