Life Under Water by Maura Dooley
Maura Dooleys poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize
Sound Barrier..demonstrates beautifully the strength of this deceptively delicate, often very tender poet: how she marries spare lyrical cadences with political scepticism, packing a whole gamut of wit and sharp observation into very little space. -- Ruth Padel * Financial Times *
Kissing a Bone, her second collection, adds a shrewd historicising sense to the lyric tenderness which glowed in her first book. It takes us across borders - literal, emotional and figurative - into states of mind which are entirely her own, yet instantly recognisable by all us us. -- Andrew Motion
Kissing a Bone, her second collection, adds a shrewd historicising sense to the lyric tenderness which glowed in her first book. It takes us across borders - literal, emotional and figurative - into states of mind which are entirely her own, yet instantly recognisable by all us us. -- Andrew Motion
Maura Dooley was born in Truro, grew up in Bristol, worked for some years in Yorkshire, and has lived in London for the past 25 years. She is a freelance writer and lectures at Goldsmiths’ College. She edited Making for Planet Alice: New Women Poets (1997) and The Honey Gatherers: A Book of Love Poems (2002) for Bloodaxe, and How Novelists Work (2000) for Seren. Her selection, Sound Barrier: Poems 1982-2002, was published by Bloodaxe in 2002, drawing on collections including Explaining Magnetism (1991) and Kissing a Bone (1996), both Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Kissing a Bone and her later collection Life Under Water, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in 2008, were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her poem 'Cleaning Jim Dine's Heart' was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2015, and was included in her latest collection, The Silvering, also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation (Bloodaxe Books, 2016). She received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2016. Her translation (with Elhum Shakerifar) of Azita Ghahreman's Negative of a Group Photograph (Farsi title: نگاتیو یک عکس دسته جمعی) was published by Bloodaxe Books with the Poetry Translation Centre in 2018.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852248178 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852248173 |
| Title | Life Under Water |
| Author | Maura Dooley |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-09-25 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2008 |
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