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Mona Arshi Small Hands (Paperback) Pavilion Poetry (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Small Hands
- Publication Name
- Small Hands
- Title
- Small Hands
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781781381816
- ISBN
- 9781781381816
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 09/04/2015
- Release Year
- 2015
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 7.3in
- Series
- Pavilion Poetry
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Topic
- General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Item Width
- 4.6in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 80 Pages
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Winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Mona Arshi?s debut collection, 'Small Hands', introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice. At the centre of the book is the slow detonation of grief after her brother?s death but her work focuses on the whole variety of human experience: pleasure, hardship, tradition, energised by language which is in turn both tender and risky. Often startling as well as lyrical, Arshi?s poems resist fixity; there is a gentle poignancy at work here which haunt many of the poems. This is humane poetry. Arshi?s is a daring, moving and original voice.
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Liverpool University Press
ISBN-10
178138181x
ISBN-13
9781781381816
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26038413366
Product Key Features
Book Title
Small Hands
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.3in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
4.6in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6101
Reviews
'Mona Arshi's debut collection certainly lives up to that claim. Her work draws on a rainbow of influences, including her Punjabi Sikh heritage. Fuelled by grief at her brother's death, but encompassing a range of human experiences, her poems have the vividly uncanny quality of dreams, as the surface of ordinary things shifts to reveal something quite disturbingly different. Her use of imagery is startlingly original: pomegranate seeds are 'unborns ticking/in blisters of heat'.' The Lady, "It is a testament to Mona Arshi's talent that, after a decade of not reading any poetry at all, her work had me clambering for old anthologies. Of course, little of what I read afterwards was as elegant, moving, haunting or true. Nothing less than Britain's most promising writer."--Sathnam Sanghera, The Times "There is an extraordinary keenness, sharpness, poignancy and precision in Mona Arshi's poems. They deal with loss, pleasure and the sheer particularities of life with striking grace, constituting something like 'an erotics of the spirit', tenderly and imaginatively taking apart and reassembling language, registering everything necessary. Time and again she hits the perfect note. It is rare to find a first book as beautiful as this."--George Szirtes "Deliciously varied in form and approach, tone and voice, Mona Arshi's poems display a tantalising 'instability' - each one prismatic and glittering. She opens a clear, suggestive window onto many aspects of life and inner life, on her cultural background, for instance, and on the tragic loss of a brother. So often one thinks, pulled up in amazement, 'Where did that come from?' that I'm tempted to the use the word 'genius'."--Moniza Alvi "Small Hands is a brimming miscellany of poems. [A] prominent and enjoyable aspect of Arshi's work is its sensuality and awareness of the body; this is a collection full of hands, feet, mouths, lips, eyes, wrists, hair and, ubiquitously, skin. [...] Arshi combines a liking for obliqueness, sometimes even coolness, with a desire to push what language can do and a willingness to experiment with form." Martyn Crusifix, 'Small Hands is a beautiful, minimally-designed and tiny edition - even the font is noticeably smaller than the industry norm - and Liverpool University Press have done an excellent job making the physical object match the work inside it. The collection is full of curious, shifty poems that seem intent on approaching their subjects sidelong, or from multiple angles at once. If this approach sometimes makes it difficult to get an accurate read on the poem's message, it does make for work that seems to offer up something different with every reading. Dave Poems, 'Mona Arshi proves she has the tools to move and startle her audience with precisely-crafted work.' Dundee University Review of the Arts, "It is a testament to Mona Arshi's talent that, after a decade of not reading any poetry at all, her work had me clambering for old anthologies. Of course, little of what I read afterwards was as elegant, moving, haunting or true. Nothing less than Britain's most promising writer."--Sathnam Sanghera, The Times "There is an extraordinary keenness, sharpness, poignancy and precision in Mona Arshi's poems. They deal with loss, pleasure and the sheer particularities of life with striking grace, constituting something like 'an erotics of the spirit', tenderly and imaginatively taking apart and reassembling language, registering everything necessary. Time and again she hits the perfect note. It is rare to find a first book as beautiful as this."--George Szirtes "Deliciously varied in form and approach, tone and voice, Mona Arshi's poems display a tantalising 'instability' - each one prismatic and glittering. She opens a clear, suggestive window onto many aspects of life and inner life, on her cultural background, for instance, and on the tragic loss of a brother. So often one thinks, pulled up in amazement, 'Where did that come from?' that I'm tempted to the use the word 'genius'."--Moniza Alvi, ' Small Hands seems to offer an early ripening of what promises to be a vintage trip into 'foreignation.' Ken Evans, The Manchester Review, 'There is an extraordinary keenness, sharpness, poignancy and precision in Mona Arshi's poems. They deal with loss, pleasure and the sheer particularities of life with striking grace, constituting something like 'an erotics of the spirit', tenderly and imaginatively taking apart and reassembling language, registering everything necessary. Time and again she hits the perfect note. It is rare to find a first book as beautiful as this.' George Szirtes, Reviews 'It is a testament to Mona Arshi's talent that, after a decade of not reading any poetry at all, her work had me clambering for old anthologies. Of course, little of what I read afterwards was as elegant, moving, haunting or true. Nothing less than Britain's most promising writer.' Sathnam Sanghera, The Times, There is an exciting new arrival on the poetryscene: Pavilion Poetry, an imprint of Liverpool University Press, describesitself as 'poetry that takes a risk... sure to challenge and delight'. Mona Arshi's debut collection certainly lives up to that claim. Her work drawson a rainbow of influences, including her Punjabi Sikh heritage. Fuelled bygrief at her brother's death, but encompassing a range of human experiences,her poems have the vividly uncanny quality of dreams, as the surface ofordinary things shifts to reveal something quite disturbingly diff erent. Heruse of imagery is startlingly original: pomegranate seeds are 'unbornsticking/in blisters of heat'. Although the acrobatic leaps of Arshi's imagination can occasionally leave thereader behind, and the book could have benefited from sharper editing, this isan assured collection that pulses with lyricism, sensuality and tenderness., 'Deliciously varied in form and approach, tone and voice, Mona Arshi's poems display a tantalising 'instability' - each one prismatic and glittering. She opens a clear, suggestive window onto many aspects of life and inner life, on her cultural background, for instance, and on the tragic loss of a brother. So often one thinks, pulled up in amazement, 'Where did that come from?' that I'm tempted to the use the word 'genius'.' Moniza Alvi
Table of Content
The Lion Entomological Specimens Practicing Your Skills Insomniac What Every Girl Should Know Before Marriage Taster Bad Day in the Office You Are Not My Mother?s Hair The Gold Bangles ?Jesus Saves? Ticking On Ellington Road Cousin Migrant The Daughters Different Principles of Enclosure Day Ghost This Morning The Bird Almost September Phone Call on a Train Journey Small Hands In the Coroner?s Office April 18th of November Notes Towards an Elegy The Urn The Rain That Began Elsewhere Gloves My Father Wants to be a Rooftop Railway Surfer Ghazal Ghazal Ode to a Pomegranate Bulbul Parvarti waits for the return of Shiva, after the slaying of Ganesh Lost Poem Large and Imprecise Baby Wireman Barbule The Found Thing Woman at Window Mr Beeharry?s Marriage Bureau Mrs M Unravels Ballad of the Small-Boned Daughter Hummingbird
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2017-392473
Dewey Decimal
821.9/2
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Trade
Series
Pavilion Poetry Lup Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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