The Secret - Paperback
by Zoë Brigley
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloodaxe BooksISBN-13:9781852247874ISBN-10:1852247878UPC:9781852247874Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.182Product ID:SCRTTCE1TX
"The Secret" is a book of mystery and magic. Opening on familiar ground - retelling stories from the Bible, Celtic mythology, small-town rumours and urban mythologies - it gradually moves beyond its borders to narratives of Central America, drawing on figures such as the Spanish conquistador, Hernan Cortes, and the Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. In this unusually innovative first collection, Zoe Brigley considers many secrets - between man and woman, mother and daughter, teacher and pupil, rich and poor, North and South, familiar and strange. Using a large variety of poetic forms, her writing oscillates between global languages and minor ways of speaking. The book is split into three sections that spiral further away from ideas of home towards the discovery of gifts in other cultures. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloodaxe BooksISBN-13:9781852247874ISBN-10:1852247878UPC:9781852247874Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.182Product ID:SCRTTCE1TX
Zoë Brigley (Thompson) grew up in Caerphilly in the Rhymney Valley of Wales, and is now an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University in the US. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003 and received a Welsh Academy bursary in 2005. Her first book of poems, The Secret (Bloodaxe Books, 2007), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008. Her second collection, Conquest (Bloodaxe Books, 2012), was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, as was her third collection, Hand & Skull (Bloodaxe Books, 2019). A book of her non-fiction essays, Notes from a Swing State, was published by Parthian Books in 2019. She also researches violence against women, and is co-editor of a volume of scholarly essays, Feminism, Literature, and Rape Narratives (Routledge, 2010). She co-edited the anthology 100 Poems to Save the Earth (Seren Books, 2021) with Kristian Evans.
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