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Häftad, Engelska, 2015
131 kr
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Anne-Marie Fyfe's poems have long dwelt on the role that the spaces we inhabit, the places in which we find security, play in our lives: House of Small Absences is an observation window into strange, unsettling spaces - a deserted stage-set, our own personalised 'museum', a Piedmont albergo, underground cities, Midtown roof-gardens, convent orchards, houseboats, a foldaway circus, a Romanian sleeper-carriage - the familiar rendered uncanny through the distorting lenses of distance and life's exigencies, its inevitable lettings-go - The book opens with 'The Red Aeroplane' where witnessing an apparent plane crash sparks a vertiginous sequence of image and memory, 'the way sureties tilt and untangle'. We know that we will follow the author in exploring not just specific places and memories but the 'exponential function of tangents', all that is implied and suggested. Some poems beguile with mysterious pageants or processions. 'Honey and Wild Locusts' offers us a curious inventory of objects: 'in-patients' marching in 'Florentine masks' and 'beekeeper veils'. These baroque surfaces are both satire and demonstration of a complicated 21st century full of dark conflicts and temptations. Liminal states, such as the insomnia permeating 'The Outer Provinces of Sleep', also suit the peculiar physics of these dream-like poetic rooms. There are also a series of shorter poems that, in a direct tone of address, simpler language and intent, counterpoint the richness and density of the longer poems. These, such as 'Winnower' speak to an opposing pragmatic viewpoint: "Everyone can use a listener, who/ won't demur, pass judgement, won't/ agree necessarily." There is a winning intimacy to these shorter poems, they clear our palates and prepare us for the longer, more involved set pieces with all of their carefully delineated and often darkly gorgeous imagery such as the terrifying bees in 'Before the Swarm': "The cloud-level shoal with their vivid insignia".
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
123 kr
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No Far Shore is a rich exploration of various coastlines across England, Wales, Ireland, Canada and the US, in the form of travel writing, narrative non-fiction, memoir and poetry. In it poet Anne-Marie Fyfe visits the meeting place of land and sea, and takes in the maps, waves, lighthouses, islands, north, maps, journeys, boats and fishermen which mark this changing boundary. She looks too at the work of a number of writers for whom the coast has been influential (and who in some cases have a surprising link to her hometown of Cushenden in Northern Ireland). They include Elizabeth Bishop, Herman Melville, Eavan Boland, Moira O’Neill, Robinson Jeffers, George Mackay Brown, C.P. Cavafy and Louis MacNeice. In addition, Fyfe also travels into her past, and that of her family, and charting her own relationship with a number of coasts and the way that they have shaped her life and those of others. Living next to the sea brings almost as many subjects as the waves falling on to the land, from the quiet ease of fishing to the impact of the shipwreck of the Princess Victoria, from the lyricism of nature poetry to the specialism of morse code and cartography.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
131 kr
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Since first appearing in Late Crossing in the late Nineties, Anne-Marie Fyfe's life studies have focused increasingly on the disconcerting underside of small-town and suburban banality: on the underlit corners of apartments, waiting rooms, underpasses; on doppelgangers and stand-ins; on clandestine, undercover operations and escapades. Understudies brings together new poems of optimism and isolation, of assumed and confused identities, with some of the poems from The Ghost Twin (2005), Tickets from a Blank Window (2004) and Late Crossing that first brought readers into this world of lives at once chaotic and oddly consolatory that lie below placid surfaces."Anne-Marie Fyfe reminds us of the skins we inhabit and shed… This is fine poetry."John Greening, TLS"A rich humanity informs Anne-Marie Fyfe's new work. The vision is detailed, the voice rings true." Thomas Lynch"Poem after poem has this quiet musicality, along with a persuasive and obstinate trust in what Wordsworth called 'the essential passions of the heart'." Michael O'Neill, The London Magazine"... a lyric clarity, an ontological accuracy and unflinching vigilance that is both spiritual and revelatory."Tom Paulin"... taut, eloquent and deeply felt. Her poems are haunted by what the past does to the present, and by the physical relics of that past which is only relayed in snatches."Helen DunmoreAnne-Marie Fyfe was born in Cushendall, County Antrim. She organises the fortnightly Coffee House Poetry series of readings and classes at London's Troubadour, as well as the annual John Hewitt Spring Festival in the Antrim Glens. Her poems have been widely published in anthologies and magazines and awarded prizes in major poetry competitions including Arvon, Bridport and the National Poetry Competition. In 2002 she received an Authors' Foundation Award, and in 2003 she was writer-in-residence at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival.