Helen Dunmore - Orange Prize winner

- Helen Dunmore - Orange Prize winner - Poetry

	The Malarkey, Published in 2012, by Bloodaxe Books Pages: 72 ISBN:1852249404 Buy this book now >
'The malarkey is over in the back of the car... As soon as you turn your back, time slips.' The humdrum present has become the precious, irrecoverable past. The ways in which the present longs for the past, questions it, tries to get in touch with it and stretches the power of memory to its limits, are central to this new collection by Helen Dunmore. Joseph Severn recalls Keats hurling a bad dinner out onto the steps of the Piazza di Spagna; the glamour of John Donne's portrait 'taken in shadows' seduces a new generation; the dead assert their right to walk through the imaginations of the living... These are poems and stories of loss and extraordinary rediscovery. The Malarkey is Helen Dunmore's first poetry book since Glad of These Times (2007) and Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001 (2001), a comprehensive selection drawing on seven previous collections. It brings together poems of great lyricism, feeling and artistry.
	Glad of These Times, Published in 2007, by Bloodaxe Books Pages: 64 ISBN:1852247584 Buy this book now >
The jacket shows Window with Distant Sea (oil on canvas) by Felicity Mara. To visit the artist's website, click here.

Glad of These Times' is full of haunting, joyous and wry narratives. These new poems explore the fleetingness of life, its sweetness and intensity, the short time we have on earth and the pleasures of the earth, and death as the frame which sharpens everything and gives it shape. "Glad of These Times" is Helen Dunmore's first poetry book since "Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001", a comprehensive selection drawing on seven previous collections. It brings together poems of great lyricism, feeling and artistry.
	Out of the Blue, New & Selected Poems published in 2001, by Bloodaxe Books ISBN 185224576X Buy this book now >

Out of the Blue is a 250 page volume which contains all the poems I wanted to collect from earlier, now out-of-print poetry collections all published by Bloodaxe Books. These earlier collections are still available from second-hand bookshops and online booksellers, although some are now hard to find and consequently expensive to buy. They are:


	Bestiary published in 1997, by Bloodaxe Books ISBN 1852244011 (Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize) Buy this book now >


Recovering a Body published in 1994, by Bloodaxe Books ISBN 1852242892 Buy this book now >	Short Days, Long Nights, New & Selected Poems published in 1991, by Bloodaxe Books ISBN 1852241500 (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) Buy this book now >

The Raw Garden, published in 1988, by Bloodaxe Books ISBN 1852240741 (Poetry Book Society Choice) Buy this book now >	The Sea Skater published in 1986, by Bloodaxe Books ISBN 1852240067 (winner of The Poetry Society’s Alice Hunt Bartlett Award) Buy this book now >

The Apple Fall published in 1983, by Bloodaxe Books, ISBN 0906427436 Buy this book now >	Bouncing Boy with wood engravings by Ros Cuthbert, published in 1999 by Yellow Fox Press ISBN 0952473437 Buy this book now >


A selection of my poems is published in:

	Penguin Modern Poets 12, Helen Dunmore, Jo Shapcott and Matthew Sweeney published in 1997, by Penguin ISBN 0140587969 Buy this book now >

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