The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk

home > books > scp > 1876857749



Scott Thurston (Ed.) The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk
Biographical note: Scott Thurston began writing in the poetry scene situated around Gilbert Adair’s Sub-Voicive Poetry reading series and Bob Cobbing’s New River Project workshops in London in the late eighties. In 1995 he moved to Poland where he taught English as a foreign language. He returned to the UK in 1997 and completed a Ph.D. on Linguistically Innovative Poetry. He currently lectures in English and Creative Writing at The University of Salford and lives in Liverpool. He edits The Radiator, a journal of contemporary poetics. His books include Turns (with Robert Sheppard) (Ship of Fools/Radiator: Liverpool, 2003), Sleight of Foot (Reality Street Editions: London, 1996) (Selection), State(s)walk(s) (Writers Forum: London, 1994) and Poems Nov 89 - Jun 91 (Writers Forum: London, 1991). Hold: Poems 1994-2004 is due out from Shearsman books in 2006. BIC Basic EAN13: 9781876857745 ISBN-10: 1876857749 ISBN-13: 9781876857745 Author: Scott Thurston Title: The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk Series: Salt Companions to Poetry Product class: BC Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CSBH Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 01-Mar-06 Extent: 320pp Height: 228 mm Width: 152 mm Thickness: 18 mm Weight: 480 gms Supplier: Gardners Books Supplier: Ingram Book Group Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: NP Price: GBP 14.99 Price: USD 21.95 Rights: World	See larger image	Short description/annotation: This exciting volume combines the diverse talents of an impressive range of writer-critics in an engaged and lively response to the poetry of Geraldine Monk. Monk’s reputation as one of the most exciting and provocative writer-performers on the British scene has been established for some time and this new collection aims to reflect critically on a prolific career which has spawned fourteen major works in the last twenty five years. Main description: This exciting volume combines the diverse talents of an impressive range of writer-critics in an engaged and lively response to the poetry of Geraldine Monk. Monk’s reputation as one of the most exciting and provocative writer-performers on the British scene has been established for some time and this new collection aims to reflect critically on a prolific career which has spawned fourteen major works in the last twenty five years. The contributions within pursue several lines of enquiry beginning with considerations of the early pamphlets published in the late seventies and early eighties, the substantial works of the mid-late 80s and 90s and the major collections of the beginning of the twenty first century. Unsurprisingly what many consider as one of Monk’s finest books, 1994’s Interrregnum (now available in the new Salt Selected Poems) a stunningly complex evocation of the fate of the Pendle Witches is examined from a variety of angles concerning its poetics of difficulty, its relationship to ideas of place, nature and eco-criticism, and its politics. Other contributors look at the presence of the ‘eerie’ in Monk’s work; the role and function of children’s games throughout her oeuvre and the ways Monk engages with the visual and the sonic aspects of language. This will be the first collection of critical responses to Monk’s poetry and will be a must for any reader interested in engaging with this dynamic and strenuous writer. Table of contents: Foreword by Jeff Nuttall Introduction by Scott Thurston ‘Geraldine Monk in Staithes’ by Bill Griffiths ‘Poetry, Difficulty and Geraldine Monk’s Interregnum’ by Christine Kennedy and David Kennedy ‘“Home-hills”: place, nature and landscape in the poetry of Geraldine Monk’ by Harriet Tarlo ‘What the Tourists Never See: The Social Poetics of Geraldine Monk’ by Sean Bonney ‘Geraldine Monk’s Eerie revealing’ by David Annwn ‘Ring a-ring a-rosy: girls’ games in the poetry of Geraldine Monk’ by Frances Presley ‘“Eye-spy”: Geraldine Monk and the Visible’ by Elizabeth James ‘Geraldine Monk in Performance’ by Chris Goode Bibliography Index Excerpt from book: