The Upshot: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Anne Rouse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852248084 ISBN 13: 9781852248086

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Anne Rouse is a keenly observant writer of spiky satirical portraits and shapely lyrics of the ordinary and the bizarre. The Upshot includes a new collection, The Divided, which constructs a modern metaphysic out of love and the daily, set against the latent (sometimes tragic) divisions in contemporary society. The selection from three critically acclaimed earlier collections ranges from the lyrical exuberance of Sunset Grill to the vivid nocturnal surrealism of The School of Night.

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About the Author

Anne Rouse's fifth collection, Ox-Eye, was published by Bloodaxe in 2022, appearing 14 years after her previous book, her retrospective The Upshot: New and Selected Poems. That book included the new poems of The Divided (2008), along with selections from her first three critically acclaimed earlier collections, Sunset Grill (1993) and Timing (1997) – both Poetry Book Society Recommendations – and The School of Night (2004), and was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year in 2008. Born in Washington DC and raised in Virginia, she became a UK citizen, settling in East Sussex after many years in London. A former health worker, she has been a Hawthornden Fellow, and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Glasgow (2000-02), Queen's University, Belfast (2004-05), and the Courtauld Institute, London (2008). Her short plays have been given rehearsed readings in Edinburgh and Hastings in the UK and in Virginia in the US.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852248084
• ISBN 13: 9781852248086
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128