Andrastes Hair by Eleanor Rees

Andrastes Hair by Eleanor Rees

The poems in Andrastes Hair draw on myth, memory, folksong and murder ballad. Often set in a mythical Liverpool, a city of metamorphosis and magic, grotesque and beautiful, its buildings are a backdrop for visions and apprehensions of the past.

Rees’s work is completely deserving of its shortlist position, even more so for a voice outside the mainstreamThat can only be good news for small presses, literary awards and non-dead poets everywhere.

-- Ross Sutherland * Liverpool Metro *

Eleanor Rees's debut collection offers up a heartfelt hymn to her native Liverpool. Her dense, textured renderings of its landscapes are eloquent, but it is her importunate, ambiguous relationship with the city that provides these poems with their drive.

-- Sarah Crown * The Guardian *

Rees’s work is completely deserving of its shortlist position, even more so for a voice outside the mainstream. That can only be good news for small presses, literary awards and non-dead poets everywhere.

-- Ross Sutherland * Liverpool Metro *

Eleanor Rees's debut collection offers up a heartfelt hymn to her native Liverpool. Her dense, textured renderings of its landscapes are eloquent, but it is her importunate, ambiguous relationship with the city that provides these poems with their drive.

-- Sarah Crown * The Guardian *

Eleanor Rees was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in 1978. Her pamphlet collection Feeding Fire received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and her first full length collection Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards. Eleanor works in the community as a poet, running writing workshops for The Windows Project and is also a part-time Lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University. Eleanor often collaborates with other writers, musicians and artists and works to commission. She lives in Liverpool. www.eleanorrees.com

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ISBN 13	9781844713042
ISBN 10	1844713040
Title	Andrastes Hair
Author	Eleanor Rees
Series	Salt Modern Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Salt Publishing
Year published	2007-11-15
Number of pages	80
Prizes	Short-listed for Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2007 (UK), Short-listed for Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards: Poetry Award 2008 (Ireland)
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