
Seahorses
Hazel Frew(Author)
Shearsman Books (Publisher)
Published on 15. April 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-905700-61-5 (ISBN)
Description
Scottish poet Hazel Frew's first collection of poems offers tales of families, of growing up, and of the world around us, seen with uncommonly fresh eyes. "I like my poems to get to the point, be direct, but in an unusual, indirect way. Glimpses of dreams, lovers, sickness, grief-strange portraits and incidents. Succinct, neat, precise. Cutting things away, shearing images, keeping words to a minimum-hopefully elaborate, sharp, funny and poignant-with the aloud sound of the poem intrinsic to the form. The resulting poems incisive, honest and humorous. My first collection is a camera of twelve years, cataloguing quirky characters and events, family, relationships, death, the world, comets and beyond." (Hazel Frew)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
114 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905700-61-5 (9781905700615)
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Person
Hazel Frew was born in 1968 and grew up in Broughty Ferry on the east coast of Scotland. She graduated from The University of Glasgow in 1991 and after a brief spell with The Glasgow Media Group started writing poems and short stories. Her poems have been widely published in magazines including Orbis, The Rialto, Painted, spoken and New Writing Scotland. Her pamphlet, Clockwork Scorpion was published by Rack Press in January 2007; Seahorses is her first full length collection. Hazel has multiple allergies, which impact on her life and poetry. She lives in the west end of Glasgow.