Banjo by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

Banjo by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

While Banjo opens with a clutch of fine lyrics, elegies and set-pieces, at the heart of Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch’s new book is a remarkable tale of darkness and light, music and silence. Celebrating the centenary of Captain Scott’s arrival at the South Pole in 1912, Banjo gives us new psychological insight into the lives of the early Antarctic pioneers, as well as an extraordinary account of the role played by music in surviving the long Antarctic winters. Banjo is Wynne-Rhydderch’s most accomplished collection to date, and further evidence of a writer of great imaginative versatility. 'Everything is close to the nerve, everything under cool emotional pressure. The cuts blossom into freshness and colour. And delight, the delight borne out of precision of sound and an exquisite command of register’ George Szirtes ‘Lines full of beauty, sometimes gorgeous, sometimes stark . . . implicating us in the essential human situations, life, death and survival, she explores’ Philip Gross

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch studied Classics at Cambridge, followed by an MA in Writing at the University of Wales, Cardiff. She is currently an Affiliate of Birkbeck College, London. She has published two collections of poetry; her most recent, Not in These Shoes (Picador, 2008) was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year in 2009.

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ISBN 13	9780330544665
ISBN 10	0330544667
Titre	Banjo
Auteur	Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Pan Macmillan
Année de publication	2012-06-07
Nombre de pages	80
Prix	Short-listed for Wales Book of the Year Award 2013 (UK)
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