Don't Mention This to Anyone
Poems and Prose Fragments of a Life in the Punjab
Published on 1. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
126 pages
978-1-908373-18-2 (ISBN)
Description
Inspired by the rediscovery of an Urdu phrasebook, Ransford takes the reader on a journey to explore the differences between 'then' and 'now', linking the reader to a world now lost to most. These poems question what it is to be both British and Indian, drawing on the author's memories and experiences to celebrate and uncover an 'Indian' self. This collection of poems reveals the influences that have been formative over four decades of Tessa Ransford's writings.
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Ransford is an eclectic and committed poet; eclectic in her willingness to absorb whatever tradition of thought or craft fits her immediate purpose and committed to what have seemed to her inescapable spiritual and aesthetic truths. SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKSRansford takes the reader on a journey to explore the differences between 'then' and 'now', linking the reader to a world now lost to most. These poems question what it is to be both British and Indian, drawing on the author's memories and experiences to celebrate and uncover an 'Indian' self. SCOTTISH REVIW OF BOOKS
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
120 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908373-18-2 (9781908373182)
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TESSA RANSFORD is an established poet, translator, literary editor, and has worked as a cultural activist on many fronts over the last forty years. She founded and was the first director of the Scottish Poetry Library.
Tessa initiated the annual Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for publishers of pamphlet poetry in Scotland, now in its twelfth year, with the attendant fairs and website: www.scottish-pamphlet-poetry.com. She has had Royal Literary Fund fellowships at the Centre for Human Ecology and Queen Margaret University. She was president of Scottish PEN from 2003-6.
Tessa initiated the annual Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for publishers of pamphlet poetry in Scotland, now in its twelfth year, with the attendant fairs and website: www.scottish-pamphlet-poetry.com. She has had Royal Literary Fund fellowships at the Centre for Human Ecology and Queen Margaret University. She was president of Scottish PEN from 2003-6.