Being Haunted
Published on 4. February 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
28 pages
978-1-78864-061-9 (ISBN)
Description
Being Haunted is unusual in contemporary poetry for its formal energy and its imaginative daring. The poems have both a rhythmical drive and an inventiveness in their imagery and their (sometimes surreal) narratives that make them constantly surprising.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Blaenau Ffestiniog
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
52 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78864-061-9 (9781788640619)
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Jennifer Copley lives in Barrow-in-Furness. She is the author of 3 full collections of poetry and several pamphlets, the latest being Some Couples published by Happenstance in 2017. Her work has appeared in The Rialto, The North, PN Review, the Independent on Sunday, the Forward Prize Anthology and GCSE Poetry Unseen revision papers.
She has won prizes in several poetry competitions including 1st prizes in the Faber/Ottaker and the Mirehouse, 2nd prize in the Cardiff Academi, 3rd prize in the Bridport, shortlisted twice for the Strokestown Prize.
U.A. Fanthorpe has described her work as 'urgent, visceral, written out of a fierce commitment to truth'.
She has won prizes in several poetry competitions including 1st prizes in the Faber/Ottaker and the Mirehouse, 2nd prize in the Cardiff Academi, 3rd prize in the Bridport, shortlisted twice for the Strokestown Prize.
U.A. Fanthorpe has described her work as 'urgent, visceral, written out of a fierce commitment to truth'.