The Toast of the Kit-Cat Club by Linda France
Linda France's latest poetry book is an adventurous cross-genre biography, an intimate life of the 18th-century writer, traveller, polemicist and rebel, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Each of her eleven chapters has a prose introduction to set the scene and time, followed by a sequence of poems in which Lady Mary takes centre stage. Inviting the reader into her world, she reveals her unbridled appetite for life, love and learning, as well as her fascination for detail and the foibles of human nature from Nottingham to Constantinople. Isobel Grundy, Lady Mary's biographer, writes in her foreword: 'Who would have thought you could catch a person, a lifetime, in about sixty poems...Each poem addresses a moment, offers a piercing insight, opens a window and leaves the different possibilities blowing through...I love the woman they're written about, and I find this tribute from one writer to another both dazzling and moving.'
Linda France's work provides further evidence that much of the most energetic, vital poetry today is by women-- 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 | 9781852246778 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852246774 |
| Title | The Toast of the Kit-Cat Club |
| Author | Linda France |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2005-02-24 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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