POETRY
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POETRY
RACHAEL ALLEN was born in 1989 in Cornwall and studied English Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. A former Faber New Poet (2014), she is the poetry editor for Granta, and co-editor at the poetry press Clinic and of the online journal tender. She is the co-author of Jolene, a collaborative book of poems and photographs with the artist Guy Gormley, and Nights of Poor Sleep, a collaboration with the artist Marie Jacotey. Rachael is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Hull.
Kingdomland Rachael Allen Kingdomland is the debut poetry collection of Rachael Allen – a writer of rare vision and bravery, humanity and flair, of wit, candour and forward brilliance. Her poems are peculiarly rich, suffused with surreal images and uncanny incidents to create bewitching worlds. Omens, sorcery and unexplained violences take shape in the glowering dusk. We are faced with strange metamorphoses, grotesque bodies, hauntings and impassable paths. And yet, all too clearly we recognise the everyday injustices, griefs and dysfunctions of life here on earth, which Allen chronicles with such balance and, often, sympathy. Kingdomland expresses the fearless cut of Allen’s verbal and written edge. ‘[Allen’s poems] transcend their specifics, to grapple with universals such as love, loss and childhood nostalgia.’ Guardian
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 8: 1936–1938 T. S. Eliot Edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden
This compelling addition to the highly praised series of Letters amounts to a fascinating biography of Eliot. Running from The Collected Poems (1936) to the much-loved Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and the dark comedy of The Family Reunion, the letters disclose everything about his professional and personal life. Honest, humane, jokey, Eliot corresponds with many of the best-known writers of the 1930s including W. H. Auden, John Betjeman, Djuna Barnes, Lawrence Durrell, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Saroyan, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf. In addition, this volume makes public for the first time the correspondence detailing his wife Vivien’s admission to a psychiatric asylum. It also reveals Eliot’s care and concern for his intimate American friend Emily Hale. ‘The editing of the letters is exemplary in its detail, authority and quality of annotation. It is the closest thing to a perfect edition of a great writer’s correspondence that can be imagined.’ Spectator
17/01/19 PB | 978 0 571 34111 5 | 64pp | £10.99 Ebook | 978 0 571 34112 2 World All Languages
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THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
17/01/19 HB | 978 0 571 31638 0 | 1000pp | £50.00 Ebook | 978 0 571 31639 7 World All Languages