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Stitching the Dark :New and Selected Poems
Stitching the Dark :New and Selected Poems
paperback
Published:
28 April, 2005
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781852246921 |
| ISBN10 | 1852246928 |
| Number Of Pages | 224 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
No matter how compelling her themes, with their demands of compassion and political conscience, Satyamurti never loses hold of her main topic: the capacity of language. -- Bernard O’Donoghue * Poetry London *
Carole Satyamurti’s poems look to be stations on a road map of psychological discoveries, sometimes personal, sometimes objective and scientific. Her best poems are not so much confessions as meditations. -- Anne Stevenson * London Magazine *
Her unobtrusive approach is deceptive – these poems have unexpected stings in their tails. -- Penelope Shuttle
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Author's Bio
Carole Satyamurti (1939-2019) was a poet, translator and sociologist. For many years she taught at the Tavistock Clinic, where her main academic interest was in the relevance of psychoanalytic ideas to an understanding of the stories people tell about themselves, whether in formal autobiography or in social encounters. She co-edited Acquainted with the Night: psychoanalysis and the poetic imagination (2003). She won the National Poetry Competition in 1986, and a Cholmondeley Award in 2000. Her translation, Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling (W.W. Norton, 2015), was joint winner of the inaugural Roehampton Poetry Prize. Her Bloodaxe retrospective, Stitching the Dark: New & Selected Poems (2005), drew on five collections: Broken Moon (1987), Changing the Subject (1990), Striking Distance (1994), Love and Variations (2000), and Stitching the Dark (2005), two of these Poetry Book Society Recommendations. This was followed by Countdown (2011), with a final collection, The Hopeful Hat, to be published posthuously in 2023.