Pure Lizard by Sujata Bhatt
In this new collection of poetry that juxtaposes images such as organic sunflowers in Pennsylvania with sunflowers grown out of the toxic soil of Chernobyl, transformation and the natural world are central themes. Poemsthat respond to the work of composers Telemann, Bob Zieff, and Philip Glass are included, as is a poetic correspondence with the Welsh writer Gillian Clarke on the writer's sense ofhome and place.
'It's vibrant, colourful and tense - an exquisite portraitRead it in one sitting.' - Poetry London on Sujata Bhatt's previous work.
Sujata Bhatt was born May 6 1956 in Ahmedabad, India and raised in Pune, India. She has lived, studied and worked in the United States, and is a graduate of the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. She has published three collections of poetry with Carcanet, England and Penguin Books, India: Brunizem (1988) won the Alice Hunt Barlett prize and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, (Asia). Monkey Shadows (1991) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1991. In Spring 1992 she was the Lansdowne Visiting Writer/Professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She now lives in Bremen with her husband, the German writer Michael Augustin, and their daughter, where she works as a freelance writer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857548334 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857548337 |
| Title | Pure Lizard |
| Author | Sujata Bhatt |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 2008 |
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