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Her book
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- Book Synopsis
- Poems 1988-1998 is a compendium from Jo Shapcott's award-winning books Electroplating the Baby, Phrase Book and My Life Asleep. It reveals her to be a writer of ingenious, politically acute and provocative imagination and justifies her reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation.
- About The Author
- Jo Shapcott was born in London. Poems from her three award-winning collections, Electroplating the Baby (1988), Phrase Book (1992) and My Life Asleep (1998) are gathered in a selected poems collection, Her Book (2000). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition (twice). Tender Taxes, her versions of Rilke, was published in 2001. Her collection Of Mutability was published in 2010 and won the Costa Prize for Book of the Year. In 2011 Jo Shapcott was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780571229802
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (05 January 2006)
- Number of Pages
- 125
- Weight
- 179 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 290 x 165 x 8 mm
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