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Hilary Menos - Red Devon, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Red Devon

Av Hilary Menos

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In the late 1990s, Hilary Menos made the unusual move from Camden Town to a Devon farmhouse, two miles from the nearest village. Over the next ten years, together with her husband and three sons, she turned the hundred acres into an organic farm, complete with herd of pedigree Red Devon cows. Red Devon reveals her experiences as a 'blow in' from upcountry, moving into a tight-knit rural community, and witnessing first-hand the conflict between farming tradition and modern commerce."Menos creates small worlds packed tight, seamless, masterfully compressed. Her poems have wit, range and strength..."Ruth PadelHilary Menos was born in Luton in 1964. Her first collection, Berg (Seren, 2009), won the 2010 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She has won or placed in the National, Bridport and Mslexia Poetry Competitions, while Wheelbarrow Farm won the Templar Pamphlet Competition in 2010. Another pamphlet, Extra Maths, was published by Smith Doorstop in 2006. Her work has appeared in BBC Wildlife magazine, and she has read at events alongside Seamus Heaney and Dannie Abse.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-06-17
  • Mått: 138 x 216 x 6 mm
  • Vikt: 110 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 64
  • Förlag: Poetry Wales Press
  • ISBN: 9781781720547
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of Forward Poetry Prize: Best First Collection 2010
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Hilary Menos was born in Luton in 1964, studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Wadham College, Oxford, then worked as a food journalist and restaurant critic in London before moving to Devon to renovate a Domesday Manor. From 2004 until 2011 she ran a 100 acre organic farm near Totnes with her husband and four sons. In 2013 she completed an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University. She has won or been placed in numerous competitions including the Mslexia Poetry Competition, BBC Wildlife Magazine Poet of the Year, the Buxton Poetry Competition and the Envoi Poetry Competition. She published a pamphlet, Extra Maths, in 2004. Her collection, Berg, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2010. Her second collection was published by Seren in June 2013 called Red Devon.

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"Red Devon is so coherent and satisfying a collection, I can't find anything to dislike" - Jane Routh, The North Reviews from her previous work "This is someone who reflects an expert at work but has their own vivid way of seeing and acting." - Ruth Padel " - crackles with formal skill, with extraordinary, vibrant language - and with great style - " - Carol Ann Duffy "She has the rare ability to uncover the wide range of implications of the world we live in, be they emotional, spiritual or literary. Here is a new poet with a full locker of accomplishments. She is sure to make an immediate impact." - John Stammers Red Devon is a book with a lot to say - and a writer with the ability to say it subtly and engagingly. - Jane Routh, The North

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