Signs Round a Dead Body - Softcover

Rees-Jones, Deryn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854112414 ISBN 13: 9781854112415

Publisher: Seren, 1998

Synopsis

Signs Round a Dead Body is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Deryn Rees-Jones's widely acclaimed first collection, The Memory Tray.

Her humour, sharp technique and preoccupation with the dilemmas of women are as apparent as ever, but there is now a more intense personal focus. Love, in all its permutations, suffuses this book, and sensuous details abound: from poems like 'Making Out' and 'From His Coy Mistress', about the fears and vacillations of love, to the disillusionment of the Nerudian 'Songs of Despair'. Informed by a sensibility at once passionate, intelligent and ironic, this new collection confirms Rees-Jones's place at the forefront of contemporary poetry.

"The pick of the crop, a magician with attitude, pinning ideas down but at the same time giving them time to breathe"
Ian McMillan, Poetry Review

"Mighty poems... a direct line to the remembered and imagined life - so rare in writers, rarer still in young writers... her general reverence for bodies, and her generous remembrance of them makes her readers feel alive in ways they haven't felt before... It is not nostalgia, it is transport and return"
Thomas Lynch

Deryn Rees-Jones was educated at the University of Wales, Bangor, and Birkbeck College, London. She is an Eric Gregory Award winner, and The Memory Tray was shortlisted for a Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. In 1996 she received an Arts Council of England Writer's Award. She lives in Liverpool, where she lectures at the University of Liverpool.

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About the Author

Deryn Rees-Jones was born in Liverpool, and educated in North Wales and London. She is the author of 7 collections of poetry including ‘The Memory Tray’ (1995) which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She has twice been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize with her collections ‘Burying the Wren’ (2012) and ‘Erato’ (2019) which were also Poetry Book Society Recommendations. She edited the influential anthology ‘Modern Women Poets’ for Bloodaxe. She has received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors and was picked as one of the top ten women poets of the decade in Mslexia magazine. She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool where she co-directs the Centre for New and International Writing, and edits the Pavilion Poetry Series for Liverpool University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Seren
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854112414
• ISBN 13: 9781854112415
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64