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Beware Falling Tortoises
Häftad, 1995
60 kr
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A falling tortoise is a bizarre way to meet one's end, but it is typical of Sheenagh Pugh's wry humour that it finds a place in her poetry. The more humorous aspects of mortality and human frailty receive the same alert consideration as sombre subjects such as dictatorship, torture, the Dieppe raid …
Short Days, Long Shadows
E-bok, 2014
141 kr
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In this, her twelfth collection, noted poet Sheenagh Pugh steps into a new, northern landscape, the Shetland Islands, with poems steeped in the wilder weathers and views of rugged coastlines, sweeping sea-vistas and the hardy historical characters who have inhabited these lands. A lovely pared-down …
Afternoons Go Nowhere
Häftad, 2019
139 kr
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A fascination for history, both as a source of human drama and a field for artful speculation, characterises this collection of poems by Sheenagh Pugh. Here we are with the rebels who sack the Palace of Savoy or inside the head of the disturbed King of France, who was convinced he was made of …
Selected Poems
E-bok, 2012
124 kr
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Here is the best of Sheenagh Pugh''s early work: a generous and wide-ranging selection from her first four collections, together with two dozen previously unpublished pieces Notable inclusions are the prize-winning ''M.S.A'' and ''Intercity Lullaby'', and the much-anthologised ''Sometimes.'' …
Short Days, Long Shadows
Häftad, 2014
135 kr
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"Almost any poetry reader - indeed, any reader - would be pushed not to find something to enjoy in Sheenagh Pugh's Later Selected poems.[...] a voice worth listening to. - Ben Wlkinson, Poetry Review "Pugh's poems are often ticking shells, primed by politics and passion [...] intense as opera, …
Sing for the Taxman
Häftad, 1995
86 kr
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Her characteristic wit and precision are fully in evidence in Sheenagh Pugh's latest collection of poems, Sing for the Taxman. Dedicated to the proposition that poetry must, first of all, entertain the reader, these poems give delight on first reading and pleasure upon contemplation. A day mountain …
Stonelight
Häftad, 1999
109 kr
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Sheenagh Pugh's poems continue to entertain and delight her many admirers. In Stonelight, her ninth collection, the keynote is celebration. The opening section includes a moving series called 'Arctic Chart' which commemorates the various people (and one ship) who gave their names to features on the …
Movement of Bodies
Häftad, 2005
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A strange assortment of characters inhabit these poems, including George Mackay Brown, Johnny Cash, William Dampier, a lion-keeper in wartime Afganistan, and a shipload of sailors in a Shetland churchyard. The long central work of the collection provides an elegiac meditation on the life and death …
Long Haul Travellers
Häftad, 2008
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Some of the journeys in this collection can be found on maps. But some travellers are journeying from one self to another, like those strange adventurers Murat Reis and Tristan Jones. Some, like Adwaitya the tortoise, have traversed time as well as space. Some travel in dreams. And the longest-haul …
Sheenagh Pugh
Later Selected Poems
Häftad, 2009
136 kr
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A poet renowned for the clarity of her style, the originality of her subject matter, and for her erudite and spiky online presence, Sheenagh Pugh is a poet at the heighth of her career. This book is a companion to her popular earlier Selected Poems, originally published in 1990 and now a GCSE set …
