Deformations by Sasha Dugdale
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize 2021. Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2020. Deformations includes two large-scale works related in their preoccupation with biographical and mythical narrative. 'Welfare Handbook' explores the life and art of Eric Gill, the well-known English letter cutter, sculptor and cultural figure, who is known to have sexually abused his daughters. The poem draws on material from Gill's letters, diaries, notes and essays as part of a lyrical exploration of the conjunction between aesthetics, subjectivity and violence. 'Pitysad' is a series of simultaneously occurring fragments composed around themes and characters from Homer's Odyssey. It considers how trauma is disguised and deformed through myth and art. Acting as a bridge between these two works is a series of individual poems on the creation and destruction of cultural and mythical conventions.
'Dugdale proves herself a powerful voice by writing about visual art, poetry, and history, 'in reverse'' - Antony Huen
Sasha Dugdale has published four collections of poems with Carcanet, most recently Joy in 2017 which was a PBS Choice. She is a Russian translator and is currently working on translations of the Russian poet Maria Stepanova to be published by Bloodaxe and Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2020. She is former editor of Modern Poetry in Translation and poet-in-residence at St John's College, Cambridge (2018-2020). In 2017 she was awarded a Cholmondeley Prize for poetry. She is co-director of the Winchester Poetry Festival.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784108984 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784108987 |
| Title | Deformations |
| Author | Sasha Dugdale |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2020-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 104 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for The Derek Walcott Poetry Prize 2021, Short-listed for T.S. Eliot Prize 2020 |
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