Imagining Helen Thomas

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Helen Thomas was widowed when her husband the war poet Edward Thomas was killed at the battle of Arras in 1917, and was left to bring up their three young children. On the centenary of the First World War Imagining Helen Thomas explores her loss, and the loss of all war widows, through poetry, prose and art. The book is one aspect of a wider project on war and widowhood by Rees-Jones and Hodes commissioned by the Ledbury Poetry Festival, which includes poetry, art, animation, performance, creative writing and education.Deryn Rees-Jones is a leading UK poet and academic. Seren has published her four poetry collections, most recently Burying the Wren (2011) which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and the poetry section of Wales Book of the Year.Charlotte Hodes is a painter, ceramicist and collage maker on women's subjects who has exhibited widely.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-06-17
Mått171 x 242 x 15 mm
Vikt480 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor88
FörlagPoetry Wales Press
ISBN9781781721728

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Deryn Rees-Jones was born in Liverpool, and educated in North Wales and London. She is the author of 7 collections of poetry including ‘The Memory Tray’ (1995) which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She has twice been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize with her collections ‘Burying the Wren’ (2012) and ‘Erato’ (2019) which were also Poetry Book Society Recommendations. She edited the influential anthology ‘Modern Women Poets’ for Bloodaxe. She has received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors and was picked as one of the top ten women poets of the decade in Mslexia magazine. She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool where she co-directs the Centre for New and International Writing, and edits the Pavilion Poetry Series for Liverpool University Press.