Fantastic Voyage by Amanda Dalton
By turns wryly humorous, tender and heartbroken, Fantastic Voyage takes us on journeys into our hidden and ghostly selves, our insides and our other, exploring how the human body gives voice to unspeakable truths. The books's central long poem a meditation on water charts a deeply personal voyage through grief and loss.
Here is a magnificent poem of poems: a surging, truth-bound voyage that offers no easy purpose, acceptance, or ending-- David Morley * The Poetry Review, on the pamphlet of Notes on Water (now included in Fantastic Voyage) *
Dark, funny, wise, terrifying. She is searingly matter-of-fact about the most painful recesses of the human heart… She dances round every corner with a grace that many more seasoned writers would die for. -- Jo Shapcott
Dalton looks in the face of despair and tells its story with unnerving calm. -- Siân Hughes * TES *
Dark, funny, wise, terrifying. She is searingly matter-of-fact about the most painful recesses of the human heart… She dances round every corner with a grace that many more seasoned writers would die for. -- Jo Shapcott
Dalton looks in the face of despair and tells its story with unnerving calm. -- Siân Hughes * TES *
Amanda Dalton is a poet and playwright. Her first book-length collection, How to Disappear (Bloodaxe Books 1999), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and she was chosen as a Next Generation Poet in 2004. Her second collection, Stray, was published by Bloodaxe in 2012. In 2021 Arc published her experimental chapbook, 30 Poems in 30 Days and, in 2022, Smith|Doorstop published a pamphlet of two long poems, Notes on Water. A version of Notes on Water was re-created for two voices and soundscape for BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears. Her third full-length collection, Fantastic Voyage (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), also includes Notes on the Water. Amanda writes extensively for BBC Radio 4 and 3 including original drama, poetry-dramas, classic adaptations, re-imaginings of film, and lyric essays. Her theatre writing includes text for outdoor and site-specific performance, and drama for young people including commissions with Manchester’s Royal Exchange, Sheffield Theatres and Keswick’s Theatre By The Lake. Freelance since 2017, much of her career has been focused on teaching, mentoring and the curation and artistic leadership of innovative cross art-form projects, often in collaboration with other artists and communities. She lives in Hebden Bridge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780377117 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780377118 |
| Title | Fantastic Voyage |
| Author | Amanda Dalton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2024-05-23 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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