On the Border - Softcover

Austin, Annemarie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852242140 ISBN 13: 9781852242145

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

Annemarie Austin's richly imaginative, unsettling poems are like paintings in which what is seen is held as it is about to happen, or as it has just happened. They evoke thresholds or border states in which (as Augustine observed) the present does not exist because it is instantly past, stepping off into other experiences, from dark into light, present into past, life into death, land into sea, from `the beach at dusk under a squally wind'. In Snowcase a woman is buried alive for eight days in a snowdrift; in So, `I found at the heart of each of his paintings/ an opening left for me to enter, his air or ground/ or water slipping backwards beneath my walking eyes.'

About this title

About the Author:

Annemarie Austin was born 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). She has since published a new collection, Track (2014).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1852242140
• ISBN 13: 9781852242145
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64