The Peepshow Girl by Marion Lomax
The Peepshow Girl was Robyn Bolam's first collection, published under her former married name of Marion Lomax. It included 'The Forked Tree', winner of the Cheltenham Festival Poetry Competition. Most of the poems from the collection were later republished in Robyn Bolam's New Wings: Poems 1977-2007 (2007).
A compelling and accomplished debut..This book immediately establishes Marion Lomax as a poet of unusual talent. -- Bernard O'Donoghue * TLS *
There are passionate emotions in these poems, sometimes guarded and obliquely expressed. But Marion Lomax has access to a wide range of voices: Eurydice, Guinevere, Mrs Mackie with her Geordie dialect, and an unnamed woman in a labour camp - as well as her own. She writes vivid natural description, as in Pheasants (In green balaclava and red face mask / Her mate invaded through a hole in the hedge./ Rain glistened on his copper, black-ribbed back), and freer, more mysterious poems which convey an authentic otherworldly chill. In The Forked Tree, she uses a firm grid of syllabics to create character and narrative, and an inspired closing image of wild deer: Jumping in and out in the moonlight, through the forked tree. -- Ruth Fainlight
Neither old-fashioned nor new-fangled, but abiding and spiritual. -- Peter Porter * Observer *
There are passionate emotions in these poems, sometimes guarded and obliquely expressed. But Marion Lomax has access to a wide range of voices: Eurydice, Guinevere, Mrs Mackie with her Geordie dialect, and an unnamed woman in a labour camp - as well as her own. She writes vivid natural description, as in Pheasants (In green balaclava and red face mask / Her mate invaded through a hole in the hedge./ Rain glistened on his copper, black-ribbed back), and freer, more mysterious poems which convey an authentic otherworldly chill. In The Forked Tree, she uses a firm grid of syllabics to create character and narrative, and an inspired closing image of wild deer: Jumping in and out in the moonlight, through the forked tree. -- Ruth Fainlight
Neither old-fashioned nor new-fangled, but abiding and spiritual. -- Peter Porter * Observer *
Marion Lomax is the former married name of Robyn Bolam, freelance poet, editor and reviewer, who was born in Newcastle, grew up in Northumberland and now lives in Hampshire. She is Emeritus Professor at St Mary's University, a former Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Southampton University and RLF Lector on the Isle of Wight. In 2016-17, she led the community-based, combined arts Ferry Tales Project which was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. She has published three books of poems with Bloodaxe, The Peepshow Girl (1989, as Marion Lomax), Raiding the Borders (1996, as Marion Lomax), New Wings: Poems 1977-2007 (2007), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and Hyem (2017). She is the editor of the anthology, Eliza's Babes: Four Centuries of Women's Poetry in English (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), and of five seventeenth-century plays. In 1981 she received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors and won first prize in the Cheltenham Festival Poetry Competition. Her libretto for the opera Beyond Men and Dreams (composer Bennett Hogg) was performed by the Royal Opera House Garden Venture in 1991. She was awarded a Hawthornden International Fellowship in 1993, held a British Council writing residency at the University of Stockholm in 1998, and was Writer in Residence at the University of Reading in 2010-11. She has given readings of her poetry in Britain, Portugal, Sweden, Romania, USA and Japan.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852240721 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852240725 |
| Title | The Peepshow Girl |
| Author | Marion Lomax |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1989-10-26 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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