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Ruth Valentine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1838198849 ISBN 13: 9781838198848

Publisher: Smokestack Books, 2021

Synopsis

Ruth Valentine\x27s tenth collection encompasses the tragedies of the public world civil\-wars in Syria and Sudan, knife crime in North London, the Iraq\-Iran war and our private griefs. At the heart of the book is an extraordinary alphabetical sequence about the Grenfell Tower dead and the society that allowed them to die. Its a book about the morality of politics and the mortality of us all, a study in remembrance and forgetting, about the indifferent sea with its soft lullabies and cold temptations, time spreading its blankness over everything, and busy humanity with its suitcases and phones, its sudden weeping

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About the Author

Ruth Valentine is a poet and activist for refugee and migrant rights. Her poetry collections include The Tide Table (1998), The Announced (2009), On the Saltmarsh (2012), Downpour (2016) and Rubaiyat for the Martyrs of Two Wars (2017). She has also published a history of Horton Hospital, Asylum, Hospital, Haven (1996) and a novel, The Jeweller’s Skin (2013). She lives in Tottenham, London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1838198849
• ISBN 13: 9781838198848
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80