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CARCANET POETRY
Scale
Mina Gorji ISBN 9781800172142 FORMAT Paperback
‘Gorji constructs intricate, considered poems which encourage us to democratise our attention and empathy’ THE GUARDIAN
RRP £11.99 PUBLICATION DATE 28th July 2022 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 29th September 2022 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 56pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry
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Her debut collection, Art of Escape, was a Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (Jan 2020)
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Scale builds on the considerable achievement of her first book, transitioning from ‘escape’ to ‘shelter’
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These poems build a place of safety for herself, her family, her readers, and all those who are wandering and uprooted
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A collection full of creatures and their habitats, Gorji evokes and explores the multiple protective measures they adopt - nests, camouflage, mimicry, display
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Feeds into current ecological concerns without being conventional or clichéd, and delighting in the sometimes strange and darker side of nature
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mina Gorji was born in Tehran and grew up in London. She lives in Cambridge where she is a lecturer in the English Faculty, Cambridge and a fellow of Pembroke College. Her debut poetry collection, Art of Escape, was published by Carcanet in 2020. Her other published work includes a study of John Clare, and essays on awkwardness, mess, weeds and rudeness. Her poems have appeared, among other places, in Magma, PN Review, London Magazine and The International Literary Quarterly.
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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784108823 Art of Escape Mina Gorji January 2020 £9.99