Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts
Winner of the 2013 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection Winner of the 2013 Costa Poetry Award Shortlisted for the 2013 T.
He displays an amazing talent for intimacy on paper – sometimes, it almost takes your breath away-- Kate Kellaway * Observer *
It's all implicit, subtle, hypnotic and often beautiful. * Monocle *
150 poems of 15 lines, combining dazzling elegance and a rare imaginative humility. -- Sean O'Brien * Independent *
150 poems of fifteen lines, tackling multiple subjects from peeling an orange to the universe's "scattergram of long-dead suns". Not a dud among them. -- Adam Thorpe * Times Literary Supplement *
Roberts’ most ambitious collection offers a potent and sensory multiplicity. * Good Book Guide *
It's all implicit, subtle, hypnotic and often beautiful. * Monocle *
150 poems of 15 lines, combining dazzling elegance and a rare imaginative humility. -- Sean O'Brien * Independent *
150 poems of fifteen lines, tackling multiple subjects from peeling an orange to the universe's "scattergram of long-dead suns". Not a dud among them. -- Adam Thorpe * Times Literary Supplement *
Roberts’ most ambitious collection offers a potent and sensory multiplicity. * Good Book Guide *
Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1963. He has published six collections of poetry and received a number of accolades including the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Award and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. As a librettist, his work has been performed in concert halls and opera houses around the world. An award-winning broadcaster and dramatist, he has published two novels, and is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224093590 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224093592 |
| Title | Drysalter |
| Author | Michael Symmons Roberts |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-04-04 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Prizes | Winner of Forward Prize 2013 (UK), Winner of Costa Poetry Award 2014 (UK), Short-listed for TS Eliot Prize 2013 (UK) |
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