Loudness by Judy Brown
Judy Brown's beautiful first collection of poetry is called 'Loudness'. A straightforward manner and a gift for ironic humour belie the artful complexities and the exacting observations evident in her work. Titles like 'The ExPats', 'The P45', 'The Crash', kick start edgy narratives featuring characters who will suffer for their modern sins. Alternatively there are also disquisitions on colour, perception, ex-angels, spontaneous combustion and other mysterious phenomena. This baroque quality, along with her sudden modulations of tone and register, and a keenly sensuous appreciation of the physical world, is reminiscent of the metaphysical poets. She is an outstanding and original new voice in modern poetry.
Born in Cheshire, Judy Brown studied English at Cambridge and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Her pamphlet, Pillars of Salt (Templar Poetry, 2006), won the Templar Pamphlet Competition. Judy’s first poetry collection, Loudness (Seren, 2011), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. Her most recent, Crowd Sensations (Seren, 2016), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Second Collection Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781854115478 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854115472 |
| Title | Loudness |
| Author | Judy Brown |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Poetry Wales Press |
| Year published | 2011-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2011 |
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