作品情報

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書籍情報

出版社

Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd

発売日

2010-04-01

ページ数

64ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

13.97 x 0.76 x 21.59 cm

ISBN-13

9781854115089

ISBN-10

1854115081

価格

5420 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/British

In this first collection from Hilary Menos, icebergs floating down the Thames jostle with transvestites in Singapore, aliens wading the Hudson Raver and the lively crew from the local slaughterhouse. We go shopping with Ingomar the barbarian and watch Bernard Manning gigging at Totes Civic Hall. Other poems are populated with characters from fiction; we step off the cartoon cliff with the Road Runner, join Iggle Piggle in a subverted Night Garden, and hitch a lift with the micro-crew on their Fantastic Voyage. Throughout, Menos brings a sophisticated sensibility to her poetry. Her subjects are seen aslant, with ironic as well as tender intentions. She ranges from the intimate and local to the ambitious and far flung, with poems that capture 'elsewhere' set in Paris and Havana and New York, and mini 'ecological' epics, often in the voice of an invented persona, alongside poems about geese and babies and farming life in rural Devon. Hilary Menos was born in Luton in 1964, studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Wadham College, Oxford, then worked as a food journalist and restaurant critic in London before moving to Devon to renovate a Domesday Manor. She now runs a 100 acre organic farm near Tomes with her husband and four sons. She has won or been placed in mumerous competitions including the Mslexia Poetry Competition, BBC Wildlife Magazine Poet of the Year, the Buxton Poetry Competition and the Envoi Poetry Competition. She published a pamphlet, Extra Maths, in 2004.

Hilary Menos is a former food journalist and restaurant critic. Her poetry has been widely featured in several magazines, and she has won the Envoi International Poetry Competition. She was runner-up in the BBC Wildlife Magazine Poet of the Year Competition as well as the Mslexia Women&;s Poetry Competition.

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