Supreme Being by Martha Kapos
Captures a range of perceptions and emotion. This title is both a huge hymn of praise for 'life', for ordinary experiencing, and at the same time faces movingly and directly the incomprehensibility of loss - the loss of someone else, deeply known and loved.
From Reviews of My Nights in Cupid's Palace:Almost every poem here makes another myth, a new cosmologyA..exerts an unsettling, enlivening, revelatory effect. Her poems seek revelation, they are the act of seeking it; they are, as Lowell said poems should be - the event, not the record of an event. - David ConstantineHere is a richly imaginative new voiceA...An intuitive and lyric sensibility is allied with unusual powers of visualisation and composition to make this a distinctive and assured debut collection. - Poetry Book Society BulletinThe best debut of the year: a true collection of poems rather than just an assortment of ones she made earlier, and each of them is perfect. - Books of the Year: The Independent on Sunday
Martha Kapos was born in New Haven, Connecticut and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Having completed a degree in Classics at Harvard, she came to London for a gap year to study Painting and the History of Art at the Chelsea School of Art and never returned. She stayed on to teach there until 2001 when she became Assistant Poetry Editor of Poetry London. Her poems have appeared in a number of magazines including Poetry Review, PN Review, Poetry Wales, The Manhattan Review, and the TLS. A selection of her poems appeared in Oxford Poets 2002: An Anthology published by Carcanet. My Nights in Cupid s Palace (Enitharmon, 2003) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and won the Jerwood/Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781904634621 |
| ISBN 10 | 1904634621 |
| Title | Supreme Being |
| Author | Martha Kapos |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Enitharmon Press |
| Year published | 2008-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
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