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    New & Collected Poems

    By Ruth Fainlight

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    Ruth Fainlight is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Born in NewYork City, she has lived mostly in England since the age of 15, publishing her first collection, "Cages", in 1966. Her poems 'give us truly new visions of usual and mysterious events' (A.S. Byatt). Each is a balancing act between thought and feeling, revealing otherness within the everyday, often measuring subtle shifts in relationships between women and men. Images of the moon, however interpreted -- whether as stern and stony presence or protective maternal symbol -- recur throughout her work.Peter Porter described one of her collections as having 'the steadiness and clarity of the moon itself'. This substantial "New & Collected Poems" covers work written over 50 years, drawing on over a dozen books as well as a whole new collection.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloodaxe Books
    Release dateJul 21, 2011
    ISBN9781780370217
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    Ruth Fainlight

    Ruth Fainlight was born in New York City in 1931. She was educated in the US and England, and has lived in England since the age of 15, mostly in London. She was Poet in Residence at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, in 1985 and 1990, and Writing Tutor at the Performing Arts Labs, International Opera and Music Theatre Labs in the UK in 1997-99. She lives in London, and was married to the late Alan Sillitoe. Her latest collection Somewhere Else Entirely (2018) is her first book of poems since New & Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2010), which drew on over a dozen collections published over 50 years. Four of those collections were originally published by Bloodaxe, including Sugar-Paper Blue (1997), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award. Other collections were published by Macmillan, Hutchinson and Sinclair-Stevenson.

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