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Oxford Poets 2013An AnthologyAndré Naffis-Sahely and Karen McCarthy WoolfEdited by Iain Galbraith and Robyn Marsack![]() 10% off eBook (EPUB)
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Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jun 2013) 9781847777812 £14.95 £13.45 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
This anthology brings together the work of nineteen poets from a dozen different countries, with translations from at least seven languages, to provide a rich mix of contemporary voices. Here you can move from the Australian desert to an English coal mine, from the interior world of Grace Darling to the mythic world of the Ramayana, from earthquakes in New Zealand to gardens in France. A common thread is migration, in many senses; another is the beguilements and betrayals of memory. The poets’ own reflections on their writing provide insight into the cultural and personal contexts of work that expands the vocabulary of poetry in English.
The Oxford Poets Anthology 2013 includes: Gregor Addison David Attwooll Emily Ballou Paul Batchelor Christy Ducker Lynn Jenner Riina Katajavuori David Krump Frances Leviston Peter Mackay Ádám Nádasdy André Naffis-Sahely Vivek Narayanan Leonie Rushforth Kerrin P. Sharpe Ian Stephen Toh Hsien Min Jan Wagner Karen McCarthy Woolf Introduction Gregor Addison Denny’s Shipyard, Dumbarton, 1959 United Turkey Red Bespoke (Loch Sloy Hydro Dam, 1948) Slant Stamford Hill Pte 1091 Allison, aged 19 Past tense Clydeside, March 2011 Till David Attwooll March for the Alternative ‘SPEEDER CLAIMED CAR WAS DRIVEN BY HER DEAD MOTHER’ Message from an agnostic angel Wiggy in Cornwall Banner for Bid Hyperlinks in Mesopotamia, Oxford Morning in Chapultepec The sound ladder Flags in East Dulwich Resurrection Milvus Milvus Emily Ballou The Importance of Tea Twenty-three pictures of the desert I, Lizard, performance artist Paul Batchelor Brother Coal Pit Ponies from The Orchards (after Rilke) Christy Ducker from Grace Darling’s ABC from Grace Darling’s Journal Lynn Jenner The Russian Point of View I have a feeling with no name For Maisie Brown The hot early universe Ten rules to guide me in my research Six New Zealand Jews Share Their Impressions of Oświęcim I’m not sure what to call what I have done ‘In the voice of Paul Celan’ Riina Katajavuori Elin ‘I eat a pepper that’s not’ Superimpositions Fathers and sons Ninety-One ‘morning tree’ Beslan Crow Grabs Poet’s Scalp In the forest, Hansel tells Gretel about owls Self-portrait 18.3.2009, 1.20 p.m. ‘From the windowed veranda’ ‘A boy reaches the monster island’ ‘I listened to the soundscape’ ‘The bewilderment that to other people’ David Krump Notes from a Journey An Ample Tree Failed Sidekick’s Dilemma Prometheus at the Checkpoint Love Song for Rural Idiots Ophelia Soft Poem Written in Realtime One Crow A Stream Old Geometry Frances Leviston GPS IUD Kassandra Bishop in Louisiana Sulis Woodland Burial Peter Mackay The Log Roller Logorrhoea (Logorrhoea) Na Dorsan (The Doors) Bàta Taigh Bàta (Boat House Boat) Ball-sampaill (Specimen) An Tobar (The Well) Ádám Nádasdy Creation Family Photo Album Angel in the Next Underground Coach On the Big Dipper Take Down his Particulars Better Staying Put Silent Interval Swaying Chandelier One of My Paintings Some Sort of Mirror at the End of the Room Adam and Eve Just Go! Self-Portrait André Naffis-Sahely Blood and Proverbs Augury N16 8EA Family Business Auroville Professional Vagabonds An Island of Strangers The Journalist Speaks of the Dictator The Return Forward March Exile, Italian Style Vivek Narayanan Rama Tataka Rama’s Servants What the People Said Chitrakuta The Jewelled Deer Leonie Rushforth How to Get There On the Ource Janus Fleuri at the Freud Museum Kairos Fontenay Mist Lifting on Mount Caburn Gorky Park Song for Carmen You With Work To Do (after Pushkin) Kerrin P. Sharpe a possible journey sewing the world six lies for an orthopaedic surgeon The Alchemy of Snow three days in a wishing well world without maps because my father In the cart the rice planters 1953 the whistler their faces turn pages there are few sightings Ian Stephen In Breton In Brest Che Perig et Anna Conversation on Ouessant Blue Woman, Brittany Crossing the Minch A way of putting things aside Sailmaker’s whipping Cape Farewell – Scottish islands voyage Toh Hsien Min At night’s border with the next day Quince Airborne Jan Wagner anomalies columbus december 1914 tea bag from ‘eighteen pastries’ the west the man from the sea staniszów blues in august dobermann chameleon hops meteorite Karen McCarthy Woolf Thirteen Names for the Moon
Awards won by Karen McCarthy Woolf
Winner, 2020 The Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry, Second Place (Seasonal Disturbances )
Commended, 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. (Seasonal Disturbances )
Short-listed, 2015 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize
(An Aviary of Small Birds) Short-listed, 2015 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection (An Aviary of Small Birds)
Praise for Karen McCarthy Woolf
'This is a book which goes beyond invention to intervention, offering hybrid forms through which to apprehend the world. Consider its 'couplings', which lineate and striate 'pre-existing prose' with response lines to 'create a new lyric narrative' (as the notes elucidate). This is true to how our minds reverberate with information, with the assimilated otherness of alien texts. It does not rest at passive record or academic critique of such an internal state. It makes music, love, and rapture'
Vahni Capildeo in The Compass Magazine 'Witty, provocative and lyrically accomplished.' Poetry London 'For all its internationalism, McCarthy Woolf's poetry engages with the local and the personal. Reading Seasonal Disturbances is like picking up a London A-Z and finding it's a new map of the world.' Karen's poem 'Outside' from Seasonal Disturbances was Guardian Poem of the Week, 25th December 2017 'Seasonal Disturbances is an unclassifiable book, revolutionary in its engagement with form, stunning in its intersectional politics, and an extraordinary achievement that should give the selectors of major poetry prize lists cold sweats for neglecting it. It will break you, in a good way. Truth hurts.' The Poetry School Books of the Year 2017 'A fine antidote to Brexit delusions and certainties: London-watching and form-reshaping, unpredictable and casually intense.' Carol Rumens, Best Poetry Books of 2017, The Guardian 'A masterclass in structure.' Magma Poetry 'Seasonal Disturbances might be strange, but it's also a brilliant selection of poems [...] It's a collection that teaches you something about human beings as well as yourself.' The Poetry School 'Formally ambitious...big-idea poems made up of bite-size insights and ironies that establish political anger and ecological anxiety.' The Sunday Times 'I loved Karen McCarthy Woolf's technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak' Maggie Gee, The Observer - The New Review, 29.11.2015. '[McCarthy Woolf has] a powerful command of form and rhythm.' Alan Brownjohn, Poetry Review Praise for Robyn Marsack 'Readers will be drawn to this book for the poets' letters, but what really dominates is the personality of Schmidt; at the end we are left with a prevailing sense of his editorial vision and an appreciation of his influence and accomplishment in the world of contemporary poetry publishing and criticism... Fifty Fifty is full of energy and play, and not a few crossed swords.' Kevin Gardner, Wild Court 'A window into the award-winning world of Carcanet' Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph 'In celebration of the Manchester-based press' 50th anniversary, a fascinating collection of letters... tracing the eventful history of this small, ambitious and excellent press.' The Bookseller
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