How the Bicycle Shone: New & Selected Poems - Softcover

Allnutt, Gillian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852247592 ISBN 13: 9781852247591

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books, 2007

Synopsis

Chris Greenhalgh's distinctive third collection is a book of sensuous meditations on time, mortality, love, and art. At its heart is a suite of prose poems. Intimate in tone, formally experimental and lyrically charged, they pick up and develop threads from his title, ""The Invention of Zero."" This collection is alive with vivid imagery and narrative excitement. At once passionate and ironic, dark and witty, the poems are acutely observed and enjoy a new depth of feeling. His language is sensitive, exact, and alert to the layered and luminous surfaces as well as the discontinuities of modern life.

About this title

About the Author:

gillian allnutt won the Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award in 2005. Her collections Nantucket and the Angel and Lintel were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and Lintel was a Poetry Book Society Choice. How the Bicycle Shone: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2007), draws on six published books plus new work. She has also published Berthing: A Poetry Workbook (NEC/Virago, 1991), and was co-editor of The New British Poetry (Paladin, 1988) and formerly poetry editor of City Limits. She lives in Co. Durham.

Review:

"She has an exotic vocabulary, much of it dialect, obtrusive in the correct ways."

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1852247592
• ISBN 13: 9781852247591
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218