Description
Annie Freud's award-winning first collection, The Best Man That Ever Was, introduced readers to a remarkably versatile new voice; The Mirabelles delivers a similarly exhilarating cornucopia - the Mask of Temporary Madness, Marc Almond, mini-novels a sonnet long, Carottes Vichy, and the most gripping account of a billiard game you'll ever read. However, in a new sequence derived from family letters, Freud has invented almost a new kind of writing: neither 'found' nor 'made' in the conventional sense, these poems are profoundly moving, and startling in their boldly unfashionable lack of irony.
Elsewhere The Mirabelles is full of the world-stuff - the clothes and food, the art and social intrigues - with which we dress and conceal our deeper emotions and appetites. In the end, this is a book about reality and its representations, and the truth and lies we tell about ourselves.
An exciting new collection from the prize-winning poet Annie Freud - A PBS Choice
About the Author
Annie Freud studied English and European Literature at the University of Warwick. Her first collection The Best Man That Ever Was received the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award. She is a tutor in poetry writing and lives in Dorset with her husband.
Awards
Short-listed for T. S. Eliot Prize 2011 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9780330519076
Author Annie Freud
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 109g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 131mm * 7mm
