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Biographical note: Sophie Levy is currently a Ph.D. candidate in English and Women’s Studies at the University of Toronto, working towards a dissertation on modernist to postmodern avant-garde feminist writing practises. Her work has appeared in Long Journey Home (Women’s Press), Kiss Machine, Masthead, unHERd, at the Edinburgh Fringe, on BBC Radio Scotland and on Book Television (Canada). She has published two chapbooks: You Are Here (Wingspan, 2000) and Found Object (Pan del Muerto, 2002).
Biographical note: Leo Mellor is a fellow and college lecturer in English at New Hall, University of Cambridge. His prose poem sequence ‘Things Settle’ was published by Landfill Press (http://www.landfillpress.co.uk/) in 2004.
BIC Basic
EAN13: 9781876857073
ISBN-10: 1876857072
ISBN-13: 9781876857073
Author: Sophie Levy
Title: Marsh Fear / Fen Tiger
Series: Salt Modern Poets
Product class: BC
Language: eng
Audience: General/trade
BIC subject category: CTCH1
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Pub date: 01-Mar-02
Extent: 112pp
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 168 gms
Supplier: Gardners Books
Supplier: Ingram Book Group
Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability: IP
Price: GBP 8.95
Price: USD 13.95
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description/annotation: Retro modernist meets postmodern lyricist. They shred the university library listening to city music. Encounters with dream language redesign a landscape, part fen, part bedroom. Poetry that seeks to hold without owning rivers and words irrevocably polluted.
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Table of contents:
Sophie Levy
Grace Lake’s Kitchen
Compass Points
Exam Technique
Hunting the Winter
Danse Macabre
taken/out of context
Dysphoria
p.s. <sappho>
‘The Journey is the Destination’
Letter-Form
Epithalamium (or Seven Brides for Seven Builders)
A View from a Bridge
The Marsh-King’s Daughter
Open Mouthed
Oxyrrhynchus Fragment
Rock Music
Illumination
elege
For some girl
Stammer
“the small biology of kisses”
Waterfront
Leo Mellor
Blue-black water
The Marcher Lords
marsh fear / fen tiger
blindings
The tideway
Sunken
The last engineer
Elegy
Coastal
A frame for dying
Eels
On not meeting him
The third myth of Johnny Lucifer
The seventh myth of Johnny Lucifer
Lowenzahn (Dandelion)
the hare in the library
Volatile Compounds
Not that that blocks
filmic
Notes from Hokkaido
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Excerpt from book:
p.s. <sappho>
that man who sits by you seems to me a god’s kin
he scoops up your words as you laugh, leaning in
my heart stutters, flutters—a bird in a gin -
when you’re here in my eyes I can’t say, can’t begin
to reconcile vision and speech to your grin
my tongue’s on the wane my words growing thin
there’s nothing left now in the eyes you were in
filament flame flights under my skin
my ears still resound with a sea-sounding din
i’m sweating and shaking possessed by a djinn
paler than dead grass greyer than tin
a second-rate trophy which death comes to win
you are the queen of the state i am in.
Sophie Levy
Lowenzahn (Dandelion)
Fired up for all aspects
and shards found fully
spoken yellow so taut
and told in debris
the slip stream of let
it be and before and
reasoned fully distinct
if orange at struck disc
out by hubcap bird
caught as sign or distinguished
visitor as the legend doubtless
revives the juli konig
to remaim indistict
or angled or grand uprooted.
Leo Mellor
Review quote: Levy’s first collection heralds an exciting new voice – a carnal intelligence which plunders Western literary traditions and destabilises them with anarchic playfulness. Delirium reveals a world of metaphysical wit, fairytales, histories and a vivid, tactile present. Here are ambiguous masks of gender revealed in a poetry of raw passion. |
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