The Greening of the Snow Beach
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The Greening of the Snow Beach by Carol Rumens
When Carol Rumens visited Russia last year [1987], she kept a diary of her trip. As well as her day-to-day impressions of a Russia thawing out under glasnost, it includes several groups of poems: Outsiders, Revolutionary Miniatures (a sequence on the lesser lights of 1905 and 1917), Ice and Fire, and her translations of several Russian poets, from Blok to Mandelstam. Her diary has now become a "Russian scrapbook". Poems started on the trip have been finished. She has added her own photographs, and artist Jamie Jamieson-Black has contributed a series of sketches. The book offers an unusual insight into Carol Rumens's personal engagement with Russian culture, and a view of Russian lives, loves and literature. Poetry Book Society Recommendation
Carol Rumens is the author of 17 collections of poems, as well as occasional fiction, drama and translation. She has received the Cholmondeley Award and the Prudence Farmer Prize, and was joint recipient of an Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. She is currently Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at Bangor University, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and edits a weekly poem column for the Guardian, from which she has published the anthology Smart Devices: 52 Poems from The Guardian 'Poem of the Week' (Carcanet Press, 2019). Her recent books include Self into Song: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures (2007), and the collections Blind Spots (2008), De Chirico’s Threads (2010) and Animal People (2016) from Seren. She has translated Russian poetry with her late partner Yuri Drobyshev, including the work of Irina Ratushinskaya in Pencil Letter (Bloodaxe Books, 1988) and Evgeny Rein in his Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2001).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852240622 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852240628 |
| Title | The Greening of the Snow Beach |
| Author | Carol Rumens |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1988-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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