My Life Asleep by Jo Shapcott

My Life Asleep by Jo Shapcott

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Jo Shapcott's third collection of poems. Despite their black humour and sometimes macabre tone, the poems are lively, never succumbing to gloom.

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My Life Asleep by Jo Shapcott

My Life Asleep is a vigorous collection of poems, lively and never succumbing to gloom, despite their black humour and sometimes macabre tone. This is Jo Shapcott's third collection. She is the joint anthologist with Matthew Sweeney of Emergency Kit for Faber, and her work is appearing in a volume of Penguin Modern Poets. She lives in London, and is kept busy on the reading circuit. This book is intended for poetry readers, students.
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ISBN 13 9780192881038
ISBN 10 0192881035
Title My Life Asleep
Author Jo Shapcott
Series Oxford Poets S
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1998-11-28
Number of pages 56
Prizes Winner of Forward Poetry Prize 1999, Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 1998, Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 1999
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