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The Ogre's Wife
Anthony Howell
出版
Anvil Press Poetry
, 2009
主題
Poetry / General
Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN
0856464228
9780856464225
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hIyGPgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Anthony Howell's first collection for several years moves in unusual directions. Guilt and society's victimization of those it punishes are among its subjects: it begins with poems concerned with the harm caused by anorexia and moves on to investigate the situation of offenders held in units for `vulnerable' prisoners. The collection includes two longer poems: `Ode to a Routine' chronicles the odyssey of one sentenced to commute across London, while the title poem extends a theme of dubious empathy explored by Browning in
My Last Duchess
. As always Anthony Howell's poems are cool, intelligent, entertaining and simply different from anything else being written. `The best of Ashbery's disciples is without doubt Anthony Howell', said Robert Nye in
The Times
. Anthony Howell, born in 1945, lives in London. He has published several collections of poems, the most recent being
Selected Poems
and
Dancers in Daylight,
and two novels. During 2002-7 he taught creative writing in prisons.