Bletsoe Elisabeth (65 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. Landscape from a Dream is Elisabeth Bletsoe's first collection in ten years and offers startling evidence of a powerful voice that should be better known. Very much a poet of place, Elisabeth Bletsoe fuses elements of folklore, botany, literature, myth and narrative into a poetry that is at once feminist in spirit, forthright, and - to a certain extent - at odds with the prevailing British poetic styles, whether conservative or radical. Rooted in the landscape of her native Dorset, this is poetry of deep observation, but within that she also gives voice to some of Thomas Hardy's heroines - not just Tess Durbeyfield, but lesser-known female characters such as Marty South in The Woodlanders - characters who are much a part of this Dorset landscape as Bletsoe's poetry is. And the voices they gain are not the voices in Hardy's narratives, but strong, independent voices who have thrown off their creator.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. In 2008 Shearsman published Elisabeth Bletsoe's most recent collection, Landscape from a Dream. We now offer a companion volume containing all-or almost all-of her previously published work, which has been out of print for some time. The book contains a number of short pieces, but the collection revolves around three major sequences: The Regardians, Portraits of the Artist's Sister and Pharmacopoeia. The book confirms Elisabeth Bletsoe's place as one of the most interesting poets of her generation.…

Paperback. Condition: New. A missal contains the text and often the music to conduct the Christian Mass throughout the year and the one at Sherborne was created c. 1400 for the monks of the Benedictine Abbey there. It is unique for its remarkable marginal series of naturalistic birds, most of which are native to the area and often given their dialect names. These are mainly to be found in the central pages, appropriately where there is also inscribed musical notation. The missal's lavish scale and decoration served to emphasise the town's spiritual pre-eminence in Wessex.In this poem-cycle, each bird was observed in its native habitat within the boundaries of the Sherborne diocese and then linked back to the missal by means of religious iconography, imagery relating to books, pigments or methods of illumination as well as bird mythology, the latter often subverting the original Christian intention. The Japanese haibun was loosely employed as its form is well suited to nature-notes and the similar sized blocks of text were visually pleasing, echoing the blocks of heavy Gothic script. The accompanying haiku allowed for a brief word-sketch of the bird or its surroundings, which literally illuminated the whole.Elisabeth Bletsoe's prose-and-verse constructions take on the beauty of densely sparkling mosaics. (London Review of Books, 2010)Rightly admired for her ingenious lexical device, she is skilled at blending dialectical vernacular with specialised terminologies from the natural sciences, historiography, folklore and taxonomy.her synthesis of heterogeneous glossaries lends a deeply nuanced interplay between laminate aesthetics in the bricolage, unlocking a range of associated impressions at the foundation of these resonant meditations. (Chris Cornwell, The Lonely Crowd, 2017)The sheer pleasure in reading her work comes from its mix of registers, its variety of diction and the exceptional way in which she fuses experience with learning and makes it all appear so easy and as natural as breathing. Her work is rich and highly-textured and, although complex, never obscure or unrewarding. (Steve Spence, Stride, 2010).…

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Stapled A4 Wrappers. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 100pp. 35 of them densely packed with terribly good, funny, insightful & scathing reviews of Prynne, Peter Larkin, Raworth, Barbara Guest, Lyn Hejinian, Rosemarie Waldrop, Alan Halsey, David Miller, John Harvey, Etruscan Books, Maquette, Reality Street, Stride, Smith-Doorstop & Redbeck. An unread copy with rust marks at staples. Christian Burgaud (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 72pp. Contributors include Zaha Hadid, Allen Fisher, Geraldine Monk, Jeremy Reed, Sheila E. Murphy, Andrew Duncan, Giles Goodland, Frances Presley, Ian Taylor, Tilla Brading, Tim Allen, Chris Ozzard, and Lloyd Robson. Slight rubbing to the upper wrapper to its head edge and, lower down, a light stain, the lower wrapper also marked in a small, peripheral way, though generally crisp.…

Metal comb bound A4 sheets. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 62pp. including printed covers. Very small splashes on front cover.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 16pp. A decent copy, bottom edge a has a little water damage, but that does not in any way impare its readability.Soft cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Poetry and prose. Light wear to covers, no inscriptions, generally VG.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 114pp. This copy has been signed by the author ('Elisabeth') and inscribed to Chris (Torrance). Signed by Author(s).