Dear Boy by Emily Berry

Dear Boy by Emily Berry

Includes poems that explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies.

This noteworthy debut sees Emily Berry making bravura turns again and again, in poems of polished phrase, seductive technique, and, in spite of the smoke and mirrors, genuine feeling-- Ben Wilkinson Guardian Emily Berry's debut is a treat. She is a new yet anything but hesitant voice. What is stimulating is that she approaches poetry as a flexible, permissive, dynamic ally ... Berry is seriously playful and, in her best poems, gives fantasy free rein ... [her] range is amazing. -- Kate Kellaway Observer Emily Berry's blazing debut, Dear Boy, is this month's happy reminder that poetry is where most of the most interesting writing in young Britain is happening now ... The collection is a perfectly charming, heartstring-tugging, dead smart and LOL-playful text about living and loving and writing and being young in our time. Dazed & Confused

Emily Berry grew up in London and studied English Literature at Leeds University, and Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. In 2008 she won an Eric Gregory Award. She is a co-editor of the anthology series Stop/Sharpening/Your/Knives and a contributor to The Breakfast Bible, a compendium of breakfasts to be published by Bloomsbury. She works as a freelance writer and editor.

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ISBN 13	9780571284054
ISBN 10	0571284051
Title	Dear Boy
Author	Emily Berry
Series	Faber Poetry Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2013-03-07
Number of pages	64
Prizes	Winner of Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2013
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