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Strange Fashion

Pam Thompson

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Description:Pam Thompson’s second collection bursts with strangers and with intimates, with colour and with cool dispassion; these poems travel the world and through history from the Belfast Troubles to slave smuggling in Illinois, from out-of-season Alicante to a croft in the Scottish Highlands, to parachuting from the St. Louis Gateway Arch. They take us into the worlds of artists via the imagined lives of assistant to Louis Daguerre or Georgia O’Keeffe, and sail confidently out into the fantastical: witness Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson hunting for antiques in Church Stretton or the journalist trying to winkle tidbits from Virginia Woolf in an elevator. Sit back and enjoy the ride.Praise for Strange Fashion:“This richly varied but coherent collection is compelling reading. It is a page turner, and yet it’s also uncompromising in its restless artistry and in its often unsettling, intensely-experienced material. The poems look dispassionately out, especially at the city, and especially at people’s lives, sometimes only glimpsed but always seen whole.”Peter Sansom"Pam Thompson is a poet whose attentive vision is focussed on those details – such as the chiaroscuro of a station interior as commuters rush through, or the perfectly ripe tomato bursting in a glorious moment of sun – that we normally miss. What Thompson shows us are small epiphanies, each word like a pebble we can roll in our fingers or place in our pocket to take out later. After reading these poems, you are brought back into the world in a different way. This is an accomplished and compassionate collection by a poet at the height of her abilities, full of love for place and people."Tamar Yoseloff"Strange Fashion is a marvellous collection. There's a clear-sighted, open-hearted attentiveness here that can be breathtaking: 'His feet are pinned to the floor with needles./He's dizzier when he breathes –/it calms him even less/than a scoop of Coke bottles and fruit chews."Cliff YatesBeacon HillOn Bonfire Night, someone will light the beacon:you imagine an arm outstretched with a long taper. Then, a chain reaction – corresponding flames budding on the tors of Leicestershire.On that evening, smoke and winter haze will coalesce, settle over there, over Bradgate,or that way, Breedon, or that, Woodhouse Eaves,which the trig point, with its circular steel plaqueand bisected angles, will reveal to one with a torch,or keep secret.And you imagine returning for the right words not evident on this afternoon in late Augustas coins strike the car park machine and the barrier lifts, allowing you the forest, nor in the swish of dog against your jeans as it bounds to its owners, nor in the chilly satsumayou almost gulp down in one, nor in the contemplationof distance from several places: the bench facing westwhere clouds wring themselves out over the city;the roundest boulder; and the trig point itself where you feel lighter, suddenly, lighter than walking boots,than the weight of money dragging down your pockets,lighter than atoms of crumbs, used tissues, peel, smooth oblong of your phone;than the full-blown rose on a twenty pence piece, its unknown, unsought after date; its grains of Latin. (from Strange Fashion)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Strange Fashion. To get started finding Strange Fashion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 90

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ISBN: 0995680558

Description: Pam Thompson’s second collection bursts with strangers and with intimates, with colour and with cool dispassion; these poems travel the world and through history from the Belfast Troubles to slave smuggling in Illinois, from out-of-season Alicante to a croft in the Scottish Highlands, to parachuting from the St. Louis Gateway Arch. They take us into the worlds of artists via the imagined lives of assistant to Louis Daguerre or Georgia O’Keeffe, and sail confidently out into the fantastical: witness Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson hunting for antiques in Church Stretton or the journalist trying to winkle tidbits from Virginia Woolf in an elevator. Sit back and enjoy the ride.Praise for Strange Fashion:“This richly varied but coherent collection is compelling reading. It is a page turner, and yet it’s also uncompromising in its restless artistry and in its often unsettling, intensely-experienced material. The poems look dispassionately out, especially at the city, and especially at people’s lives, sometimes only glimpsed but always seen whole.”Peter Sansom"Pam Thompson is a poet whose attentive vision is focussed on those details – such as the chiaroscuro of a station interior as commuters rush through, or the perfectly ripe tomato bursting in a glorious moment of sun – that we normally miss. What Thompson shows us are small epiphanies, each word like a pebble we can roll in our fingers or place in our pocket to take out later. After reading these poems, you are brought back into the world in a different way. This is an accomplished and compassionate collection by a poet at the height of her abilities, full of love for place and people."Tamar Yoseloff"Strange Fashion is a marvellous collection. There's a clear-sighted, open-hearted attentiveness here that can be breathtaking: 'His feet are pinned to the floor with needles./He's dizzier when he breathes –/it calms him even less/than a scoop of Coke bottles and fruit chews."Cliff YatesBeacon HillOn Bonfire Night, someone will light the beacon:you imagine an arm outstretched with a long taper. Then, a chain reaction – corresponding flames budding on the tors of Leicestershire.On that evening, smoke and winter haze will coalesce, settle over there, over Bradgate,or that way, Breedon, or that, Woodhouse Eaves,which the trig point, with its circular steel plaqueand bisected angles, will reveal to one with a torch,or keep secret.And you imagine returning for the right words not evident on this afternoon in late Augustas coins strike the car park machine and the barrier lifts, allowing you the forest, nor in the swish of dog against your jeans as it bounds to its owners, nor in the chilly satsumayou almost gulp down in one, nor in the contemplationof distance from several places: the bench facing westwhere clouds wring themselves out over the city;the roundest boulder; and the trig point itself where you feel lighter, suddenly, lighter than walking boots,than the weight of money dragging down your pockets,lighter than atoms of crumbs, used tissues, peel, smooth oblong of your phone;than the full-blown rose on a twenty pence piece, its unknown, unsought after date; its grains of Latin. (from Strange Fashion)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Strange Fashion. To get started finding Strange Fashion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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