Storyville by Linda France
After charting lows and highs in her previous two collections, Storyville reveals Linda France exploring the longitude and latitude of her familiar territory – the badlands of love and sex, music and memory. The book is divided into three parts. Storyville: improvisations on the theme of jazz. Home Movies: poems about remembering and forgetting, about the life in art and the art in life. And On the Game: a series of pieces addressing the problem of prostitution. She’s still seduced by extremes – equally at home with grit and velvet, still greedy for rich imagery and exotic allusions – but this new work introduces a greater distance, an awareness that the map isn’t the same as the territory.
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 | 9781852243999 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852243996 |
| Title | Storyville |
| Author | Linda France |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1997-10-23 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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