Poetry from the UK & Ireland

Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2006

Michelene Wandor's new poetry collection excels in the richness of its subject matter, the witty and sensuous language, the musicality of its rhythms and the way in which she is able to combine sophistication with accessibility.

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This long-awaited collection will be welcomed by all those with an interest in the contemporary British pastoral tradition.

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The title, A Sinner Saved by Grace, comes from the inscription on a lonely and isolated gravestone the poet came across while walking on the moors above his home in the Calder Valley. And indeed, the whole collection is a reaffirmation of the powers of nature, language and music by which the poet finds himself surrounded in his Pennine home.

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In this new collection, Ian Pople explores the boundaries of religious and linguistic certainty.

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Julia Darling's second collection was completed a little over a year after Sudden Collapses in Public Places, and looks at the world beyond the hospital, although still from the view-point of a cancer patient in the advanced stages of the illness.

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