Fusewire
Published on 15. February 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-0-7011-6379-2 (ISBN)
Description
Fusewire has the fierce historical awareness and linguistic energy of Ruth Padel's previous collections but moves into new territory and new clarity. Poems on British activity in Ireland through the ages intrude on an intensely moving series of love poems which reverse sexual cliches of colonisation: here Britain is female and Ireland the high-profile man.
From the prize-winning poet of Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, Voodoo Shop and The Soho Leopard, all shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
From the prize-winning poet of Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, Voodoo Shop and The Soho Leopard, all shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
Reviews / Votes
[A] rewarding and effective Anglo-Irish affair, using a passionate relationship to cast light on the vexed colonial history and current situation of the two islands... There are some intensely erotic moments -- Guardian She has a fierce humour. Her poems speed, never out of the fast lane * Poetry Ireland Review * [An] extraordinary talent * Observer * Her sense of history, of the past intertwining with the present, is most poignant * Times Literary Supplement * If Wallace Stevens and Anna Akhmatova were one and the same person, you'd have Ruth Padel -- Paul DurcanMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
80 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7011-6379-2 (9780701163792)
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Person
Ruth Padel is a prize-winning poet, Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London, and first Resident Writer at Somerset House, London. Her poetry collections include Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, Voodoo Shop and The Soho Leopard, all shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; and, most recently, the critically-acclaimed Darwin. She has also published two much-loved books on reading contemporary poetry, 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem and The Poem and the Journey, and a highly acclaimed nature book, Tigers in Red Weather, shortlisted in the US for the Kiriyama Prize.