"Yellow Studio", Stephen Romer's fourth book of poems, is furnished with the poems of that middle of the life where amorous bewilderment, rueful satire and the bitter-sweet memory conduct their urgent dialogue. Exploring the mystifying link between sacred and erotic love, Romer identifies the source of art itself, a place of creation and refuge, the yellow studio of the title poem. It is the lighted room of childhood, a vulnerable private place the adult tries to recreate. Formal acts of remembrance are attempts to identify what lies ahead as much as to preserve the shadows. Here Romer, with innocence and urbanity, takes stock of past and future.

About the Author
Stephen Romer was born in Hertfordshire in 1957 and educated at Cambridge, Harvard and the British Institute in Paris. Since 1981 he has lived in France, where he is Maitre de Conferences in the English department of Tours university. He has been three times Visiting Professor in French at Colgate University, New York. Romer has published three previous collections of poetry with Oxford University Press and is the editor of the Faber anthology Twentieth-Century French Poems. He writes on French literature and modern poetry for the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.

Reviews
'If Tribute is haunted by aphasia, exile and the loss of continuity, those fears are shadows that give body to the essences more insistently dwelt upon, and these are apprehended with a depth of spiritual resource that is almost mystical.' - Clive Wilmer on Tribute, Times Literary Supplement'Stephen Romer has achieved a breakthrough in these new poems. The death of his father has torn away a veil, releasing a fresh energy and vision.' - Hugo Williams


Awards
Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2008.



Book Information
ISBN 9781903039854
Author Stephen Romer
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint OxfordPoets
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd