The Best Man That Ever Was

Description

Given its imaginative risk and experimental daring, perhaps the most remarkable thing about Annie Freud's poetry is its effortless success: these wise, funny, sly, erotic and lightning-witted poems all find their marks with unerring accuracy. From the disturbing dramatic monologue of the title poem, through love poems of great worldly tenderness, to a soliloquy from the inventor of the individual fruit pie - the reader is both challenged and entertained from first to last. The Best Man That Ever Was announces one of the most startlingly original poets to have emerged in recent years.

Annie Freud grew up in London and graduated in English and European Literature at the University of Warwick. She has one daughter, May.

"The poems are witty, observant and carefully unillusioned about men or anything else." "Sunday Times""