Description
Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Winter Choice Award. Contains the poem 'Joy' - Winner of the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Sasha Dugdale's fourth Carcanet collection, Joy, features the poem of that title which received the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. `Joy' is a monologue in the voice of William Blake's wife Catherine, exploring the creative partnership between the artist and his wife, and the nature of female creativity. The Forward judges called it `an extraordinarily sustained visionary piece of writing'. The poems in Joy mark a new departure for Dugdale, who expresses in poetry a hitherto `silent' dialogue which she began as an editor of Modern Poetry in Translation with writers such as Don Mee Choi, Kim Hyesoon, Maria Stepanova and Svetlana Alexeivich. Dugdale combines an open interest in the historical fate of women and in the treacherous fictional shaping of history. In the abundant, complex and not always easy range of voices in Joy she attempts to redress the linear nature of remembrance and history and restore the `maligned and misaligned'.
Fourth collection from the Eric Gregory Award-winning poet; Dugdale's Forward-Prize-winning poem `Joy' gives its title to this major collection of long poems and sequences; Addresses the current sense of international unease; Features poems commissioned by the British Library for the anniversary of Alice in Wonderland; Combines an open interest in the historical fate of women and particularly women-creators, and an interest in the fictional and dangerous shaping of history.
About the Author
Sasha Dugdale is a poet, translator and playwright. She has published three collections of poetry with Carcanet, Notebook, The Estate, and Red House. In 2017 she was awarded a Cholmondeley Prize. Between 2012 and 2017 she was editor of Modern Poetry in Translation. She is co-director of the Winchester Poetry Festival.
Reviews
'Addictive writing, compelling and tender.' Malika Booker
Awards
Winner of The Poetry Book Society Winter Choice Award 2017 and Forward Prize for Best Single Poem ('Joy') 2016.
Book Information
ISBN 9781784105037
Author Sasha Dugdale
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 6mm
Fourth collection from the Eric Gregory Award-winning poet; Dugdale's Forward-Prize-winning poem `Joy' gives its title to this major collection of long poems and sequences; Addresses the current sense of international unease; Features poems commissioned by the British Library for the anniversary of Alice in Wonderland; Combines an open interest in the historical fate of women and particularly women-creators, and an interest in the fictional and dangerous shaping of history.
About the Author
Sasha Dugdale is a poet, translator and playwright. She has published three collections of poetry with Carcanet, Notebook, The Estate, and Red House. In 2017 she was awarded a Cholmondeley Prize. Between 2012 and 2017 she was editor of Modern Poetry in Translation. She is co-director of the Winchester Poetry Festival.
Reviews
'Addictive writing, compelling and tender.' Malika Booker
Awards
Winner of The Poetry Book Society Winter Choice Award 2017 and Forward Prize for Best Single Poem ('Joy') 2016.
Book Information
ISBN 9781784105037
Author Sasha Dugdale
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 6mm
