Lieke Marsman

Broschiertes Buch

The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes

Beschreibung

Frank, conversational and suffused with a dry humour, this book is a record of poet and novelist Lieke Marsmanâ s diagnosis, events and thoughts of having bone cancer. An energising mix of prose and lyric, the poems offer readings of both the writer and her environment. Translated by poet Sophie Collins.

Autor

Lieke Marsman published her first poetry volume (Things That I Tell Myself) in 2010 when she was only twenty years old, and promptly won three poetry prizes. Her first novel (The Opposite of A Human Being), in which she intertwined poetry and prose to examine climate change and our attitudes towards it, was published in 2017. Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and now lives in Edinburgh. She is co-editor of tender, an online arts quarterly, and editor of Currently & Emotion (Test Centre, 2016), an anthology of contemporary poetry translations. small white monkeys, a text on self-expression, self-help and shame, was published by Book Works in November 2017 as part of a commissioned residency at Glasgow Women's Library. Her debut collection of poems Who Is Mary Sue? was published by Faber & Faber in 2018.

Produktdetails

• Pavilion Poetry
• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Seitenzahl: 62
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 186mm x 116mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 90g
• ISBN-13: 9781786942135
• ISBN-10: 1786942135
• Artikelnr.: 54162317