A Bench for Billie Holiday by James Nash

A Bench for Billie Holiday by James Nash

In A Bench for Billie Holiday, James Nash tenderly retraces seventy years of life through seventy new sonnets. Whether lightly sketching moments of truth or revisiting his younger self with the benefit of insight and experience, he imbues each fourteen-line fragment with wit, wisdom and wonder.

Looking back from various locations, each ideal for serious thought (whether the train, a bike or a sea-facing bench), he pieces together autobiographical shards of truth that reflect both the smallest details of his own life and the larger issues we face as a society, nation and species.

A perfect follow-up to his beloved first volume of sonnets, Some Things Matter, this book adds new breadth and depth to the work of one of Yorkshire's most popular poets.

Nash, James: - James Nash was born in London in 1949, and has been a resident of Leeds since 1971. He is a well-known provider of creative writing workshops in schools, universities and the community, and is regularly called on as a host of literary events. His collections include Some Things Matter: 63 Sonnets (2012), and Cinema Stories (2015, with Matthew Hedley Stoppard), both published by Valley Press.

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ISBN 13	9781912436095
ISBN 10	1912436094
Title	A Bench for Billie Holiday
Author	James Nash
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Valley Press
Year published	2018-10-16
Number of pages	88
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