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Stranger, Baby
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Stranger, Baby
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Emily Berry
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:72 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 131 |
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Category/Genre | Poetry by individual poets |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780571331321
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Classifications | Dewey:821.92 |
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Edition |
Main
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Faber & Faber
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Imprint |
Faber & Faber
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Publication Date |
2 February 2017 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
'The loss of a mother must be something very strange', observed Sigmund Freud, a reflection that haunts this intense and powerful new book. Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which she has become known. But these poems delve deeper again, in their off-kilter and often agonising encounter with childhood loss. Love, anger, tenderness, violence: all find expression in poems powered by grief's tidal undertow. This is a book of mourning, recrimination, exhilaration, and 'oceanic feeling', where familiarity meets strangeness and despair becomes a kind of celebration.
Author Biography
Emily Berry's first book of poems is Dear Boy, which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Hawthornden Prize. She is a contributor to The Breakfast Bible (a compendium of breakfasts) and editor of Best British Poetry 2015 (Salt Publishing). She is the editor of Poetry Review.
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