Description
Into the Woods takes us to imaginary wild woodland in the centre of London. In this story the woodsman, the wild girl and the widow Mary live in a recognisable present, but being archetypes, they continually try to emerge from our time into one that may never have been - to the Lambeth woods. We too are drawn into our own fantasies of wild woods from folk tales, and here real-life images of Epping Forest and Box Hill fuel our imagination and work to plunge us, resisting, into the centre of the woods, into heterotopia. In the end though, we emerge back to the familiar, and the widow Mary snaps us back to reality when she purchases an acre of woodland from the Archbishop of Canterbury, signaling the end of the wild wood. The second book from Anna Robinson builds upon her acclaimed debut The Finders of London, leading us further into a London that we have never seen
About the Author
Anna Robinson was born and lives in London. She has an MA in Public History from Ruskin College, Oxford. Her pamphlet, Songs from the flats (Hearing Eye 2006), was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. In 2001, she became the first recipient of The Poetry School Scholarship. Anna Robinson has had a number of poet residences and as a former tutor in prisons she is a regular poetry judge for the Koestler Competition and a founding editor for Not Shut Up! and The Long Poem Magazine. She teaches at the University of East London, where she is undertaking a PhD exploring shared concerns between history and poetry. Anna Robinson's poetry has been described as achieving "perfectly the public world lodged in the lyrical" (Wayne Burrows, Poetry London). Her first collection The Finders of London was shortlisted for the inaugural Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre Prize for Poetry in 2011.
Reviews
Praise for Robinson's first collection The Finders of London: -----Poetry Review:'A gorgeously grubby paean to her native city.'----- -----TLS: 'a beautifully constructed collection whose attention to what London is saying makes this such a remarkable debut'-----
Book Information
ISBN 9781907587566
Author Anna Robinson
Format Paperback
Page Count 95
Imprint Enitharmon Press
Publisher Enitharmon Press
About the Author
Anna Robinson was born and lives in London. She has an MA in Public History from Ruskin College, Oxford. Her pamphlet, Songs from the flats (Hearing Eye 2006), was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. In 2001, she became the first recipient of The Poetry School Scholarship. Anna Robinson has had a number of poet residences and as a former tutor in prisons she is a regular poetry judge for the Koestler Competition and a founding editor for Not Shut Up! and The Long Poem Magazine. She teaches at the University of East London, where she is undertaking a PhD exploring shared concerns between history and poetry. Anna Robinson's poetry has been described as achieving "perfectly the public world lodged in the lyrical" (Wayne Burrows, Poetry London). Her first collection The Finders of London was shortlisted for the inaugural Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre Prize for Poetry in 2011.
Reviews
Praise for Robinson's first collection The Finders of London: -----Poetry Review:'A gorgeously grubby paean to her native city.'----- -----TLS: 'a beautifully constructed collection whose attention to what London is saying makes this such a remarkable debut'-----
Book Information
ISBN 9781907587566
Author Anna Robinson
Format Paperback
Page Count 95
Imprint Enitharmon Press
Publisher Enitharmon Press
