Selected Poems: Sheenagh Pugh (Border Lines)

Pugh, Sheenagh

ISBN 10: 1854110292 / ISBN 13: 9781854110299

Published by Seren, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Poems: Sheenagh Pugh (Border Lines)
• Publisher: Seren
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854110292
• ISBN 13: 9781854110299
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1752613092.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 47156049
• Signed: 7/15/2025 8:58:12 PM
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Synopsis

Here is the best of Sheenagh PughOCOs early work: a generous and wide-ranging selection from her first four collections, together with two dozen previously unpublished pieces Notable inclusions are the prize-winning 'M.S.A' and 'Intercity Lullaby', and the much-anthologised 'Sometimes.' Throughout, a lively and enquiring mind is brought to bear on how we live and die, and how we might live more equitably. Sheenagh Pugh approaches her subject unpredictably, through Norse saga and snooker, apartheid and falling tortoises, in a poetry of invention and conviction At the heart of the book is the Earth Studies sequence, a history of the world in 19 poemsOCO, and the first major environmental poem of the green era. Set in the indeterminate future, it explores the rise of human civilisation, and abuse of the Earth, following them to their logical conclusion: the death of the planet. Ironic, lyrical, penetrating, these poems typify the craft and passion of Sheenagh PughOCOs writing. Selected Poems ends with a section of PughOCOs much-admired translations, of German poets such as Simon Dach, Andreas Gryphius and Christian Hofmann von Hofmannswaldau."

About the Author

Sheenagh Pugh has also published nine poetry collections, two ‘Selected Poems’, two novels and a critical book on Fan Fiction. She also translates poetry from Russian, German and Ancient Greek. She says, “My interests are language, history, northern landscapes from Shetland to the Arctic and all points in between, snooker, mortality, cyberspace (I waste massive amounts of time online) and above all, people.