Rego Retold: Poems in Response to Works by Paula Rego - Softcover

Owen Lowery; Paula Rego

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178410003X ISBN 13: 9781784100032

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

As Deryn Rees-Jones writes in her foreword, one of the most striking elements of Paula Rego's art is her ability to hint at implied narratives, to dramatise the 'pause between feeling and action, between knowing and not knowing'. Into this pause, Owen Lowery inserts his own poetic responses to Rego's works. Drawing on the often disturbing themes of Rego's works - power, violence, the body at its most vulnerable - Lowery creates poems that both interpret the visual and move away from it into new narratives. Rego Retold is a fascinating exploration of the interplay of word and image; it is also a poet's personal tribute to one of the most significant artists of our time.

About this title

Review:

'Makes you look at the paintings with fresh attention.' --Poetry Book of the Month, The Observer

About the Author:

Lowery was born in 1968. Formerly a British Judo champion, he suffered a spinal injury while competing and is now a tetraplegic. He has a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from The University of Bolton. Owen's first collection, Otherwise Unchanged, was published in 2012. Paula Rego was born in Lisbon and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her art is internationally renowned for its dark and sinister subject matters. In 2010, Rego was made a Dame of the British Empire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 178410003X
• ISBN 13: 9781784100032
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128