Ox-Eye by Anne Rouse
Anne Rouse is a keenly observant writer of spiky satirical portraits and shapely lyrics of the ordinary and the bizarre. Her perspective in Ox-Eye the term for a small cloud presaging a storm is one of apprehension in poems relating to personal and social change. Ox-Eye is her fifth collection from Bloodaxe.
Anne Rouse’s poems are watchful and amused, sardonic and appalledThey are also in the best sense political: the big picture of our whole society informs her miniatures of city life where dossers and shopping jostle for attention alongside love and death. -- Ruth Padel & Sean O’Brien * PBS Bulletin *
Rouse has honed her craft further to produce some lovely focused lyrics with a wonderful development in her tone. The sureness of Rouse’s touch is a pleasure to read throughout and The School of Night is her most moving volume yet. -- Andrew Neilson * Magma *
The reader is surprised and pleased and informed by the conclusions the poet leads us to, by her often poignant humour and shocks of transcendence that are rooted in a natural and unforced realism. -- Penelope Shuttle * Poetry London *
Rouse has honed her craft further to produce some lovely focused lyrics with a wonderful development in her tone. The sureness of Rouse’s touch is a pleasure to read throughout and The School of Night is her most moving volume yet. -- Andrew Neilson * Magma *
The reader is surprised and pleased and informed by the conclusions the poet leads us to, by her often poignant humour and shocks of transcendence that are rooted in a natural and unforced realism. -- Penelope Shuttle * Poetry London *
Anne Rouse lives in East Sussex. Her Bloodaxe retrospective The Upshot: New and Selected Poems included the new poems of The Divided (2008), along with selections from her first three critically acclaimed earlier collections, Sunset Grill (1993) and Timing (1997) – both Poetry Book Society Recommendations – and The School of Night (2004), and was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year in 2008. A new collection, Ox-Eye, is published by Bloodaxe in 2022. A former health worker, she has been a Hawthornden Fellow, and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Glasgow (2000-02), Queen's University, Belfast (2004-05), and the Courtauld Institute, London (2008). Her short plays have been given rehearsed readings in Edinburgh and Hastings in the UK and in Virginia in the US.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780376080 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780376081 |
| Title | Ox-Eye |
| Author | Anne Rouse |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-06-23 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
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