Poetry Book Society Winter 2017 Bulletin E-Book

• Herausgeber: Poetry Book Society
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Seitenzahl: 52

Beschreibung

The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot in 1953 to "propagate the art of poetry". The Poetry Book Society Winter 2017 Bulletin features a wide range of exciting new poetry publications, reviewed by expert poet selectors Vona Groarke, Tim Liardet, George Szirtes, AB Jackson, Denise Saul and Andrew McMillan.WINTER SELECTIONS October, November, December 2017 Choice: Sasha Dugdale - Joy (Carcanet) Recommendations: Ahren Warner - Hello, Your Promise has been Extracted (Bloodaxe) Anne Michaels - All We Saw (Bloomsbury) Tim Dooley - Weemoed (Eyewear) Paul Deaton - A Watchful Astronomy (Seren) Commendation: Fleur Adcock - Hoard (Bloodaxe) Translation: Ana Blandiana - The Sun of Hereafter - Ebb of the Senses (Bloodaxe)Guest Selection: Wayne Holloway-Smith - Alarum (Bloodaxe)

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It was blacker and blacker in the wood.

The chalk path led into such darkness

My heart almost failed me, but I kept going.

- Sasha Dugdale, Joy

FOUNDED BY T S ELIOT 1953

WINTER 2017 NO. 255

CONTENTS

CHOICE

Sasha Dugdale • Joy • Carcanet

RECOMMENDATIONS

Paul Deaton • A Watchful Astronomy • Seren

Tim Dooley • Weemoed • Eyewear Publishing

Anne Michaels • All We Saw • Bloomsbury

Ahren Warner • Hello. Your promise has been extracted • Bloodaxe

SPECIAL COMMENDATION

Fleur Adcock • Hoard • Bloodaxe

RECOMMENDED TRANSLATION

Ana Blandiana • Translated by Viorica Patea and Paul Scott Derrick The Sun of Hereafter • Ebb of the Senses • Bloodaxe

PAMPHLET CHOICE

Ruth McIlroy • Guppy Primer • Smith | Doorstop

GUEST SELECTOR | ANDREW McMILLAN

Wayne Holloway-Smith • Alarum • Bloodaxe

REVIEWS

NEWS & EVENTS

LISTINGS

CHOICERECOMMENDATIONSPECIAL COMMENDATIONSELECTORS

VONA GROARKE& TIM LIARDET

TRANSLATION SELECTOR

GEORGE SZIRTES

PAMPHLET SELECTORS

A. B. JACKSONDENISE SAUL

GUEST SELECTOR

ANDREW McMILLAN

CONTRIBUTORS

ALICE KATE MULLENNATHANIEL SPAININPRESS TEAM

EDITORIAL & DESIGN

ALICE KATE MULLEN

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LETTER FROM THE PBS

I would like to start with a huge thank you to our poet selector, Vona Groarke, who has come to the end of her PBS tenure with this Winter Bulletin. Vona has made some brilliant selections and written wonderful reviews over the last two years and has been incredibly supportive to myself and the team since we took over the running of the PBS for which I am eternally grateful. We wish her well and look forward to reviewing her future titles!

We are delighted to welcome Sandeep Parmar as our new Book Selector, Sandeep is the author of two poetry collections and is a Ledbury Forte prize winner. She was a Forward Prize 2017 judge and has written for a wide variety of publications, including the Guardian, TLS, FT and Poetry Review.

You may have noticed some changes, not only in the design of the Bulletin, but also a new guest selector spot – Andrew McMillan has chosen his favourite title of 2017 for this Bulletin, watch this space for further guest selections. Jen Campbell, award winning poet, reviewer and vlogger (video blogger for the uninitiated!) will be reviewing PBS selections on Youtube – we can’t wait to view her reviews of the Winter selected titles in early December.

Please do keep an eye on our events pages too, we are really keen to showcase the PBS selected poets and relish the opportunity to meet our members face to face. On that note, we will be launching this Bulletin at the Poetry Café in London on the 8th December and we would love to see as many of you as possible there. For those of you who are students – we are relaunching the PBS Student Poetry Prize later in October. Visit our website for further details soon.

Finally, the selections. Sasha Dugdale is this season’s Choice with the fantastic Joy, the award winning title poem has been described as a “masterly accomplishment”. We have a wonderful mix of Recommendations with collections from Paul Deaton, Tim Dooley, Anne Michaels and Ahren Warner. Fleur Adcock receives the Special Commendation with Hoard and Recommended Translation goes to the translation of Romanian poet Ana Blandiana by Paul Scott Derrick and Viorica Patea. Pamphlet Choice is awarded to the “tender, hard and amused poems” that make up Guppy Primer from Ruth McIlroy.

- Sophie O’Neill, PBS and Inpress Director

PBS CHOICE: SASHA DUGDALE

Sasha Dugdale is a poet, translator and editor. She has published four collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Joy (Carcanet, 2017). Her long poem ‘Joy’ won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2016. In 2017 she won a Cholmondeley Award. She is currently working on translations of Maria Stepanova’s poems for publication in the UK. Sasha was editor of Modern Poetry in Translation for five years, and co-editor of the international anthology Centres of Cataclysm (Bloodaxe, 2016).

JOY

CARCANET | £9.99 | PBS PRICE £7.50- PBS CHOICE, WINTER 2017

Sasha Dugdale’s Joy, her fourth collection, is unquestionably her most explorative book so far, dominated by the thirteen-page title poem with which it opens. Moving in its moods and tonal variations the poem is a masterly accomplishment. Catherine Blake, William’s recent widow, remembers how they met “...a thousand years ago” and speaks her way, groove by groove, through the complex cycles of her grief. Presented almost as a one-act play, the monologue shifts between lament and contemplation, anger and sorrowing, hope and remorse, the anguish caused by the impossible absence and the presence of that absence:

I am a rent shirt... I am a poor man’s shirt and a pair of woollen stockings and a patched jacket thrown from the hearse... Every breeze shudders me... And no one wants me...

How I ache.... How I ache... How I ache...