Poems 1968-2004 by Carol Rumens
Carol Rumens has always confronted the personal with the political in poems which are remarkable for their imaginative daring and their engagement with other lives. Often set against the background of Eastern Europe, Russia or Northern Ireland, they are filled with a powerful sense of loss and exile. She draws on a wide variety of characters and voices to dramatise the realities of suffering and persecution, or to write direct, honest accounts of love, separation, death and displacement. Publication celebrates Carol Rumens's 60th birthday on 10 December 2004
'Carol Rumens is one of the few women poets writing today whose seriousness is absolute but not closed; whose political beliefs are so enmeshed with her intelligence and sympathetic passions that it is impossible to consider the state of contemporary poetry in Britain without taking her work into account..She retains her feminine voice, but extends her sympathies beyond feminism in sinewy but heart-piercing poems' - Anne Stevenson 'She is a European poet whose imagination goes beyond the confines of Europe, a poet of borders and transit, and of the movement across frontiers which makes both the experience of alienation and that of home a relative matter' - Isobel Armstrong, TLS 'Her poetry achieves levels of genuine anger, expressing through gritted teeth an avowed intention to redeem, in art and love, the contemporary world that helped create them, against which they pitch themselves' - John Sears, PopMatters
Carol Rumens is the author of 17 collections of poems, as well as occasional fiction, drama and translation. She has received the Cholmondeley Award and the Prudence Farmer Prize, and was joint recipient of an Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. She is currently Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at Bangor University, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and edits a weekly poem column for the Guardian, from which she has published the anthology Smart Devices: 52 Poems from The Guardian 'Poem of the Week' (Carcanet Press, 2019). Her recent books include Self into Song: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures (2007), and the collections Blind Spots (2008), De Chirico's Threads (2010) and Animal People (2016) from Seren. She has translated Russian poetry with her late partner Yuri Drobyshev, including the work of Irina Ratushinskaya in Pencil Letter (Bloodaxe Books, 1988) and Evgeny Rein in his Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2001).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852246808 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852246804 |
| Title | Poems 1968-2004 |
| Author | Carol Rumens |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2004-11-25 |
| Number of pages | 472 |
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