The Gentleness of the Very Tall
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The Gentleness of the Very Tall by Linda France
Linda France's poetry is both sensuous and sensitive, peeling back layers of language and meaning in pursuit of honesty. Carol Rumens has called her 'a clever, accessible new voice. Energetic, ranging, witty, candid, informal and excitingly individualistic'. The Gentleness of the Very Tall, her second collection, treads the tightrope between freedom and threat, violence and love. Evoking a world under pressure - personal and political - the poems strive for balance and transformation, with an uncompromising pragmatism.
Linda France's work makes use of many available styles, and often incorporates the swiftness, tightness and unfazed engagement with actuality of the best journalismResponding with compassion to the realities of life in Britain in the 1990s, it invents a poetic world that is demystified but not impoverished. There is much sensuous pleasure in the skin of things, and in language itself. Red opens up important new territory for poetry, and will appeal not only to those who already enjoy reading it, but give those who suspect poetry is irrelevant to them a rare inducement to think again -- Carol Rumens
Linda France was born in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives close to Hadrian’s Wall, near Hexham, in Northumberland. Her eight full-length poetry collections include The Simultaneous Dress (Bloodaxe Books, 2002) and The Toast of the Kit Cat Club (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), a biography in verse of the 18th century traveller and writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; book of days, a year renga, with ceramic fragments by Sue Dunne (Smokestack Books, 2009), You are Her (Arc Publications, 2010) and Reading the Flowers (Arc Publications, 2016). Linda also edited the acclaimed anthology Sixty Women Poets (Bloodaxe 1993), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her poem ‘Bernard and Cerinthe’ won the Poetry Society’s 2013 National Poetry Competition.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852242879 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852242876 |
| Title | The Gentleness of the Very Tall |
| Author | Linda France |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1994-09-22 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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