The Simultaneous Dress by Linda France
The Simultaneous Dress is borrowed from the artist Sonia Delaunay, a dream garment that perfectly matches the wearer’s mood, movement and memories. It fits like a second skin, shielding and revealing at the same time. This dress stands for integrity, wholeheartedness, the place where awareness and action become one, poised and fluid. These are poems written on the body, seeking rest in a puzzling, unsettled world, asking questions about identity and the limits of love.
Linda France's work provides further evidence that much of the most energetic, vital poetry today is by womenHer exuberant first collection, Red, compared love unfavourably with jazz. Her third collection, Storyville, devotes a section to this connection. The result, like the music, is very seductive. -- Christina Patterson * Independent *
Linda France was born in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives close to Hadrian’s Wall, near Hexham, in Northumberland. Her eight full-length poetry collections include The Simultaneous Dress (Bloodaxe Books, 2002) and The Toast of the Kit Cat Club (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), a biography in verse of the 18th century traveller and writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; book of days, a year renga, with ceramic fragments by Sue Dunne (Smokestack Books, 2009), You are Her (Arc Publications, 2010) and Reading the Flowers (Arc Publications, 2016). Linda also edited the acclaimed anthology Sixty Women Poets (Bloodaxe 1993), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her poem ‘Bernard and Cerinthe’ won the Poetry Society’s 2013 National Poetry Competition.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852245733 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852245735 |
| Title | The Simultaneous Dress |
| Author | Linda France |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-09-26 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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