Description
Following her prize-winning first collection, Martha Kapos again captures an extraordinary range of perceptions and emotion. Her style is highly original, a sort of internal Cubism, conveying a feeling-state by observing it precisely through many sharply nuanced images and from many angles. She creates a very distinctive, unique atmosphere - graver here than in her previous collection. "Supreme Being" is both a huge hymn of praise for 'life', for ordinary experiencing, and at the same time faces very movingly and directly the incomprehensibility of loss - the loss of someone else, deeply known and loved, and the awareness, too, of the coming loss of the poet's own 'experiencing': themes as grave and profound as can be imagined. These are the substance of religious feeling and - without overt religious referencing - "Supreme Being" earns its bold title.
About the Author
MARTHA KAPOS is an American living in London. Until 2001 she taught in the Art History Department of the Chelsea College of Art. My Nights in Cupid's Palace received a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and won the Jerwood/Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection. She is Assistant Poetry Editor of Poetry London.
Reviews
From Reviews of My Nights in Cupid's Palace:Almost every poem here makes another myth, a new cosmologyA...exerts an unsettling, enlivening, revelatory effect. Her poems seek revelation, they are the act of seeking it; they are, as Lowell said poems should be - the event, not the record of an event. - David ConstantineHere is a richly imaginative new voiceA...An intuitive and lyric sensibility is allied with unusual powers of visualisation and composition to make this a distinctive and assured debut collection. - Poetry Book Society BulletinThe best debut of the year: a true collection of poems rather than just an assortment of ones she made earlier, and each of them is perfect. - Books of the Year: The Independent on Sunday
Book Information
ISBN 9781904634621
Author Martha Kapos
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Enitharmon Press
Publisher Enitharmon Press
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 6mm
About the Author
MARTHA KAPOS is an American living in London. Until 2001 she taught in the Art History Department of the Chelsea College of Art. My Nights in Cupid's Palace received a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and won the Jerwood/Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection. She is Assistant Poetry Editor of Poetry London.
Reviews
From Reviews of My Nights in Cupid's Palace:Almost every poem here makes another myth, a new cosmologyA...exerts an unsettling, enlivening, revelatory effect. Her poems seek revelation, they are the act of seeking it; they are, as Lowell said poems should be - the event, not the record of an event. - David ConstantineHere is a richly imaginative new voiceA...An intuitive and lyric sensibility is allied with unusual powers of visualisation and composition to make this a distinctive and assured debut collection. - Poetry Book Society BulletinThe best debut of the year: a true collection of poems rather than just an assortment of ones she made earlier, and each of them is perfect. - Books of the Year: The Independent on Sunday
Book Information
ISBN 9781904634621
Author Martha Kapos
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Enitharmon Press
Publisher Enitharmon Press
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 6mm
