作品情報
母性を、新しい国へ足を踏み入れるような変容として歌う小詩集。
リズ・ベリーの小詩集は、新しい命の到来によって変わる身体と時間を、豊かな声と大胆な比喩で描く。表題作は Granta 掲載後に Forward Prize for Best Single Poem を受賞し、Chatto & Windus から刊行された小冊子版で読める。日本語版は確認できない。
レビュー要約
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率直さと美しさを両立させ、出産後の時間を甘美さだけでなく不安や暗さも含めて描く点が評価されている。小さな判型ながら、母になることで世界の見え方が変わる感覚を鮮やかに残す。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Chatto & Windus
- 発売日
- 2018-07-12
- ページ数
- 32ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 11.6 x 0.2 x 16.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781784742676
- ISBN-10
- 1784742678
- 価格
- 2168 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction
*'The Republic of Motherhood' Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem* ‘I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhood and found it a queendom, a wild queendom.’ In this bold and resonant gathering of poems, Liz Berry turns her distinctive voice to the transformative experience of new motherhood. Her poems sing the body electric, from the joy and anguish of becoming a mother, through its darkest hours to its brightest days. With honesty and unabashed beauty, they bear witness to that most tender of times – when a new life arrives, and everything changes.
Liz Berry is the author of Black Country , which won a Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Liz Berry was born in the Black Country and now lives in Birmingham. Her debut collection, Black Country , 'a sooty, soaring hymn to her native West Midlands' ( Guardian ), won a Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her pamphlet The Republic of Motherhood was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and the title poem won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2018. In The Home Child , a novel in verse, she reimagines the story of her great-aunt Eliza Showell, one of the many children forcibly emigrated to Canada as part of the British Child Migrant schemes.
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Sublime
Beautiful and compelling in every mode of expression. The portrayal of motherhood and love—young and old, captures candid life in just a few pages.
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A sensational pamphlet, bursts the skinned silence of birthing and Motherhood
Many will have already said how wonderful Liz Berry's poetry is. This is everything I expected and more. If you've had a difficult birthing experience or know someone who has, these words will bring both comfort, acceptance, and that complicit voice of a friend who's walked with "our Lady of the Birth Trauma' and felt dazed. This is what great poetry does - makes your embodied experience heard, understood. Thank you Liz. I can't recommend this highly enough: for poets, for mothers, for mothers-who've-lost, for anyone who loves language from one of the most incredible poets alive today!
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Great poetry
Loved it
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Lovely chapbook
This is a beautiful little volume of poems that is a great self-splurge for a mom, or a great gift to another mom.
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Beutiful poems about motherhood
Beutiful poems that are a wonerful reflection on pregnancy birth and motherhood . A rare reflection on the depression that can follow a birth . Very moving read .
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- フォワード詩賞 第27回（2018年） ・Winner