Rego Retold - Poems in Response to Works by Paula Rego

REGO, Paula (paintings) Owen Lowery (poems)

ISBN 10: 178410003X / ISBN 13: 9781784100032

Published by Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rego Retold - Poems in Response to Works by Paula Rego
• Publisher: Carcanet Press, Manchester
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178410003X
• ISBN 13: 9781784100032
• Binding: SOFTCOVER
• Illustrator: Rego, Paula
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

As Deryn Rees-Jones writes in her foreword, one of the most striking elements of Paula Rego's art is her ability to hint at implied narratives, to dramatise the 'pause between feeling and action, between knowing and not knowing'. Into this pause, Owen Lowery inserts his own poetic responses to Rego's works. Drawing on the often disturbing themes of Rego's works - power, violence, the body at its most vulnerable - Lowery creates poems that both interpret the visual and move away from it into new narratives. Rego Retold is a fascinating exploration of the interplay of word and image; it is also a poet's personal tribute to one of the most significant artists of our time.

About the Author

Lowery was born in 1968. Formerly a British Judo champion, he suffered a spinal injury while competing and is now a tetraplegic. He has a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from The University of Bolton. Owen's first collection, Otherwise Unchanged, was published in 2012. Paula Rego was born in Lisbon and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her art is internationally renowned for its dark and sinister subject matters. In 2010, Rego was made a Dame of the British Empire.