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Valentine, Ruth

 
9781838198848: If You Want Thunder
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ISBN 10: 1838198849 ISBN 13: 9781838198848
Editorial: Smokestack Books, 2021

Sinopsis

Ruth Valentine''s tenth collection encompasses the tragedies of the public world – civil-wars in Syria and Sudan, knife crime in North London, the Iraq-Iran war – and our private griefs. At the heart of the book is an extraordinary alphabetical sequence about the Grenfell Tower dead and the society that allowed them to die. It’s a book about the morality of politics and the mortality of us all, a study in remembrance and forgetting, about the indifferent sea with its soft lullabies and cold temptations, time spreading its blankness over everything, and ‘busy humanity with its suitcases and phones, its sudden weeping…’

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Ruth Valentine is a poet and activist for refugee and migrant rights. Her poetry collections include The Tide Table (1998), The Announced (2009), On the Saltmarsh (2012), Downpour (2016) and Rubaiyat for the Martyrs of Two Wars (2017). She has also published a history of Horton Hospital, Asylum, Hospital, Haven (1996) and a novel, The Jeweller’s Skin (2013). She lives in Tottenham, London.

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Editorial
Smokestack Books
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1838198849
ISBN 13 
9781838198848
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
80
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