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Inventing the Fishes

Sue Stewart

Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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(Pub. Nov 1993)
9780856462481
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  • Sue Stewart’s first collection introduces a poet of lyric intensity who writes with a vivid aural and visual imagination. Her poems effortlessly bridge the real, the surreal and the mythic as they engage with both personal life and the natural world, the commonplace and the extraordinary.

    Sue Stewart lives in Northamptonshire where she runs Write2B ( www.write2b.co.uk ), a literature consultancy she established in 2002. At Write2B she has specialised in national reading campaigns, strategy development, fundraising, research and editorial work. Before this she was an Arts Council Literature Officer, held the Creative Writing Fellowship at Stirling ... read more
    Awards won by Sue Stewart Winner, 1995 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize (Inventing the Fishes) Winner, 1994 Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for Poetry (Inventing the Fishes)
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