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Pearl
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- Book Synopsis
- Jane Draycott's translation of Pearl reissued as a Carcanet Classic A Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation In a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river: 'my pearl, my girl'. One of the great treasures of the British Library, the fourteenth-century poem Pearl is a work of poetic brilliance; its account of loss and consolation has retained its force across six centuries. Jane Draycott in her new translation remakes the imaginative intensity of the original. This is, Bernard O'Donoghue says in his introduction, 'an event of great significance and excitement', an encounter between medieval tradition and an acclaimed modern poet.
- About The Author
- Jane Draycott's previous collections from Carcanet Press include The Occupant (Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Over (T S Eliot Prize shortlist), Prince Rupert's Drop (Forward Prize shortlist) and her 2011 prize-winning translation of the the medieval dream-elegy Pearl.Other collections, from Two Rives Press, include Storms Under the Skin: Selected Poems of Henri Michaux, 1927-1954 (a PBS Recommended Translation), and two collections with artist Peter Hay: Christina the Astonishing, co-authored with Lesley Saunders, and Tideway, both reissued in 2022 in the TRP Illustrated Classics series. A recipient of the Keats Shelley Prize for Poetry, Draycott has been NL Letterenfonds Writer in Residence in Amsterdam and was winner of the 2014 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.A Next Generation Poet 2004, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and teaches on postgraduate programmes at the universities of Oxford and Lancaster. Jane Draycott's personal website can be visited at www.janedraycott.org.uk
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781784106591
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Carcanet Classics, (27 September 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 64
- Weight
- 96 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 x 6 mm
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