Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power
First full debut from a promising young poet reflects a risky exploration of the unfamiliar and a search for strangeness, spirituality and stories.
'It is rare for me to read a collection aloud, to feel that it must be voicedIt is a testament to the quality of Power's work that not only did I do this once, but several times, and what's more, relish each repeated reading' - Sabotage Reviews; `Phoebe Power, in this accomplished, formally restless debut collection, yokes together some very surprising things: political musings, quasi-comic consumerist dilemmas, fascinated and bemused observations of Austrian custom, transcribed vocal fragments, family history, even - at one point - a murder mystery. You feel there is nothing her acute poetic eye cannot absorb. All this incorrigible plurality is united by an intelligence at once satirical and scrupulous, probing and tender. Hers is surely one of the freshest new voices to emerge in years.' - Caitriona O'Reilly
Phoebe Power was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grew up in Cumbria and currently lives in York. She is the author of Shrines of Upper Austria (Carcanet, 2018), which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and a Somerset Maugham Award, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Seamus Heaney Prize, and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Further publications include Sea Change, an illustrated pamphlet based on a commission from the National Trust about the Durham Coast (Guillemot Press, 2021, with Katrina Porteous), and Harp Duet (2016).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784105341 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784105341 |
| Title | Shrines of Upper Austria |
| Author | Phoebe Power |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-02-22 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Prizes | Winner of The Forward (Felix Dennis) Prize for Best First Collection 2018, Commended for Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2018, Short-listed for The T. S. Eliot Prize 2018, Short-listed for Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2019, Short-listed for Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors 2019 |
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