Ox-Eye

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Publisher's Synopsis

Anne Rouse is a keenly observant writer of spiky satirical portraits and shapely lyrics of the ordinary and the bizarre. Her perspective in Ox-Eye - the term for a small cloud presaging a storm - is one of apprehension in poems relating to personal and social change. Ranging from her native east coast of America to her adopted home on the south coast of England, these incisive but often amused poems question how we view past and present, dismantling obsolete nostalgia, and casting a critical eye on what we wish for and what may happen instead. Ox-Eye is her fifth collection from Bloodaxe, appearing 14 years after her previous book, The Upshot: New & Selected Poems, which included the new poems of The Divided (2008), along with selections from her first three critically acclaimed earlier collections, Sunset Grill (1993) and Timing (1997) - both Poetry Book Society Recommendations - and The School of Night (2004).

About the Publisher

Bloodaxe Books

BLOODAXE BOOKS: Making as wide a selection of poetry available to as wide a readership as possible. Bloodaxe has been a pioneering publisher of poetry in translation, building its reputation on publishing numerous new poets alongside some of the most important figures in modern poetry. Bloodaxe Books is Britain's premier publisher of contemporary poetry, with an international reputation for quality in literature and excellence in book design. Founded in Newcastle in 1978, Bloodaxe is based in Northumberland's Tarset valley, with a sales office in Bala in North Wales.

Book information

ISBN: 9781780376080
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Imprint: Bloodaxe Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 821.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 64
Weight: 114g
Height: 140mm
Width: 214mm
Spine width: 8mm