In Doctor No's Garden by Henry Shukman
With this assured and powerful first collection, Henry Shukman springs fully-formed into the poetry world, having already won a raft of prizes for individual poems.
The most important debut this year.. Shukman turns a slow, calm gaze on the world, captures what he sees with a skill that conceals his artistry. Beneath the understatement the emotion glints bright as quartz... he evokes all that is unspoken, unsaid, and yet most important at the same time -- Rachel Campbell-Johnston * The Times *
Wierdly ingenious... almost everything brims with surely acheived detail. His talent lies in sheer narrative resource, and humour -- Alan Brownjohn * Sunday Times *
Despite their quiet, elegant demeanour, these poems tack and skim to elemental forces. This is a concise, well-shaped first collection [with] the kind of bold emotion more usually associated with American verse... [and] lines whose tensile strength is woven from something other than irony -- John Greening * Times Literary Supplement *
An object lesson in how lyricism, emotional precision adn the ache of nostalgia can be combined -- Wayne Burrows * Poetry London *
Wierdly ingenious... almost everything brims with surely acheived detail. His talent lies in sheer narrative resource, and humour -- Alan Brownjohn * Sunday Times *
Despite their quiet, elegant demeanour, these poems tack and skim to elemental forces. This is a concise, well-shaped first collection [with] the kind of bold emotion more usually associated with American verse... [and] lines whose tensile strength is woven from something other than irony -- John Greening * Times Literary Supplement *
An object lesson in how lyricism, emotional precision adn the ache of nostalgia can be combined -- Wayne Burrows * Poetry London *
Henry Shukman wrote a travel book, Sons of the Moon, at the age of nineteen, followed by Travels with my Trombone, based on a year working as a musician in the Caribbean, and Savage Pilgrims, a memoir set in New Mexico. He has won numerous poetry awards, including the Daily Telegraph Arvon Prize and the Jerwood Aldeburgh Poetry Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224069137 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224069136 |
| Title | In Doctor No's Garden |
| Author | Henry Shukman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2002-08-08 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Waterstone's Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2002 |
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