Tracy - Annemarie Austin

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Résumé :
Annemarie Austin's sixth book of poetry from Bloodaxe.

Biographie:
Annemarie Austin was born in 1943 in Devon and grew up on the Somerset Levels and in Weston-super-Mare, where has lived for most of her life. She won the Cheltenham Literature Festival Poetry Competition in 1980, and her first collection, The Weather Coming (1987) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Very: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008) includes work from all her collections, including On the Border (1993), The Flaying of Marsyas (1995), Door upon Door (1999) and Back from the Moon (2003). A new collection, Track, is due from Bloodaxe in 2014.

'Austin is a fable maker. Hers is a poetry of parts held together by powerfully imagined dream associations. As her world deliquesces and reforms, her imagination breathes life into other people in other times, weirdly authenticating the material she draws from history' - Anne Stevenson. 'Annemarie Austin's world is one of doubles and reflections...she is deeply engaged with shifting perspectives and challenging perceptions' - Jane Griffiths, Poetry Review. 'She has the power to suggest the fantastic or the terrible... Annemarie Austin understands that the force of the uncanny lies in the echoing silence at the edge of the unknown' - Helen Kidd, Poetry Quarterly Review. 'Austin's voice has a shivery intelligence and precision' - Deryn Rees-Jones, London Magazine.