Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times - Softcover

 
9780571223008: Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times

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Emergency Kit, edited by Jo Shapcott and Matthew Sweeney is a poetry anthology which values imagination, surprise, vivid expression, and the outlandish and playful above the ideological and the sententious.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jo Shapcott was born in London. Poems from her three award-winning collections, Electroplating the Baby (1988), Phrase Book (1992) and My Life Asleep (1998) are gathered in a selected poems collection, Her Book (2000). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition (twice). Tender Taxes, her versions of Rilke, was published in 2001. Her collection Of Mutability was published in 2010 and won the Costa Prize for Book of the Year. In 2011 Jo Shapcott was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

Matthew Sweeney is an Irish poet and editor of The New Faber Book of Children's Poems and Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times (with Jo Shapcott).

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9780571172078: Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times

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ISBN 10:  0571172075 ISBN 13:  9780571172078
Verlag: Faber and Faber, 1996
Softcover