The Illuminated World
Published on 30. July 2014
Book
Hardback
71 pages
978-1-908998-26-2 (ISBN)
Description
Poetry. "The range, across space and different habitats on earth, is striking and impressive. These poems exhibit an extremely attractive way of regarding the world, and are not afraid to be aesthetic and metaphysical, replete with myths and jewels."--Peter Forbes
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
168 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908998-26-2 (9781908998262)
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Person
Jemma Borg was born in Essex. She took a first in zoology at Oxford, where she also completed a doctorate in evolutionary genetics. She has worked as a science editor, environmental campaigner, and teacher, and has travelled and lived briefly in places such as Australia, Pakistan, and Hong Kong. Her poems have been widely published in magazine and anthologies, and she has received prizes including the New Writing Ventures Award for Poetry in 2007 and a residency at the Leighton Artists' Colony at the Banff Centre in Canada in 2009. She currently lives in East Sussex with her husband and young son.