The Door to Colour - Softcover

Schneider, Myra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907587519 ISBN 13: 9781907587511

Publisher: Enitharmon Press, 2014

Synopsis

Myra Schneider's new collection brings a fresh sense of reality to some well-known images. Colour is the keynote of the book, moving through Matisse, Hockney, Chagall; sound too, in Mahler and Beethoven. Often we find skin-deep assumptions turned around: the gold of ancient Crete is not its jewellery but olives; a postbox's bright exterior conceals menace; a major twentieth-century artist only started painting by chance at the age of twenty; and the long poem 'Minotaur' makes it clear that the Minotaur is no monster, Theseus no hero. Myra Schneider's tenth full collection is 'worth getting hold of if you like your poetry emotionally vulnerable, richly allusive and superbly poised between past and present.' Poetry London

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Review:

"Myra Schneider has become an essential poet. Nobody else manages her fusion of the domestic and the global as well. Nobody else manages her fusion of the sensual and the spiritual as well." "ACUMEN""

"Her eye for the natural world is sharp yet tender as is her colour sense; she has a wonderful ability to find vision in the most ordinary domestic object." "ARTEMISpoetry""

"The poet takes the reader on a journey through the contradictions of red from dooking apples to menstrual blood (the pads can be disposed of, But you can t kill the smell of shame.), to a dress called excitement." Wendy Klein, "London Grip Poetry Review""

"I thought this sequence was as readable and as action packed as a novel obviously not as long, but it had that same forward momentum and drive." Kim Moore, kimmoorepoet.wordpress.com"

About the Author:

Myra Schneider spent most of her childhood on the Firth of Clyde, lived in Chichester during her teens and has lived in London since she went to University. She is the author of four poetry collections by Littlewood Press, three novels for children and teenagers by Heinemann and five collections by Enitharmon Press. Her poem 'Goulash' was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, 2007. Myra has co-edited four anthologies of poetry by contemporary women poets. She is an experienced writing tutor and works as a core tutor for The Poetry School.

About this edition

• Publisher: Enitharmon Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1907587519
• ISBN 13: 9781907587511
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80