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- Book Title
- Citadel
- Publication Name
- Citadel
- Title
- Citadel
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781789621020
- ISBN
- 9781789621020
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 27/04/2020
- Release Year
- 2020
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 4.6in
- Series
- Pavilion Poetry
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Topic
- Women Authors, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Item Width
- 7.4in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 64 Pages
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Shortlisted for Costa Poetry Award 2020 Shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2020 Shortlisted for John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2021 Poetry Book of the Month - The Telegraph May 2020 Included in Books of the Year 2020 - The TLS November 2020 Juana of Castile (commonly referred to as Juana la Loca - Joanna the Mad) was a sixteenth-century Queen of Spain, daughter of the instigators of the Inquisition. Conspired against, betrayed, imprisoned and usurped by her father, husband and son in turn, she lived much of her life confined at Tordesillas, and left almost nothing by way of a written record. The poems in Citadel are written by a composite 'I' - part Reformation-era monarch, part twenty-first century poet - brought together by a rupture in time as the result of ambiguous, traumatic events in the lives of two women separated by almost five hundred years. Across the distance between central Spain and the northwest coast of England these powerful, unsettling poems echo and double back, threading together the remembered places of childhood, the touchstones of pain, and the dreamscapes of an anxious, interior world. Symbolic objects - the cord, the telephone, eggs, a flashing blue light - make obsessive return, communication becoming increasingly difficult as the storm moves in over the sea. Citadel is a daring and luminous debut.
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Liverpool University Press
ISBN-10
178962102x
ISBN-13
9781789621020
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6038398942
Product Key Features
Book Title
Citadel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
64 Pages
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Item Length
4.6in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
7.4in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
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Pr6119.P73c58 2020
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'So much fire comes to life in snapshots on these pages ... The images are electrifying. Something marvellous occurs: a domestic scene becomes "a blow to the head / enough to knock the earth from its orbit." I love this book.' - Ilya Kaminsky, 'Such a moment[s] of profound emotional, physical and psychological experience must be the origins of the identification between two individuals so remote in time and Sprackland catches the paralleled shift of innocence to pained maturity in the brilliant final line: "Our little beds, bars of autumnal light falling through the curtains".' Martyn Crucefix, ' Citadel - despite its surface of smooth, confident lyricism - is a very strange book... Even the strangest descriptions have a rightness about them: "The bright/ metallic snip like a speckled thrush tapping/ a snail against a stone" is how Sprackland hears the sound of a man clipping his fingernails. How could anyone resist that?' Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 'So much fire comes to life in snapshots on these pages ... The images are electrifying. Something marvellous occurs: a domestic scene becomes "a blow to the head / enough to knock the earth from its orbit." I love this book.' Ilya Kaminsky 'Martha Sprackland's poems are virtuosic in their timing, texture, and detailed evocation. From poems of the hospital to poems of the shore, this is a fierce and fresh debut that rings with courage and intelligence. Citadel will seize you by the heart and lead you into deep and resonant territories, and when you return you will find yourself changed, strange to yourself, and wondrously enriched.' Fiona Benson '[ Citadel ] is keenly responsive to questions of place and displacement... Sprackland's painterly visions linger long in the memory.' Aingeal Clare, The Guardian For previous work: 'Sprackland's words pierce through the mundanity of the everyday, creating intense emotional landscapes [...] With Milk Tooth, Sprackland continues to establish herself as one of Britain's finest young poets.' Robert Greer, The London Magazine For previous work: 'Sprackland refreshes the domestic and mundane in poems which are outwardly calm, but lit from within to reveal unusual visionary angles.' Eric Gregory Award Judges 2014 For previous work: 'Martha Sprackland is already a formidable technician. The sonnet is moved through quatrains and and a kind of terza rima, and there is deft and adept free verse. The result is a calm, taut surface to the poems which belies the heightened, sometimes gothic nature of the subject matter.' Ian Pople, The Manchester Review For previous work: '[A] commanding teller of the strange stories of others . . . Sprackland's best poems have the power of an irresistible tide.' Alison Brackenbury, PN Review For previous work: '[V]iolence or (in this case) "terrible dynamism" is figured with a tender precision . . . Sprackland forces a wonderful fascination upon her readers.' Edwina Attlee, The Poetry Review, Review of previous work: "Sprackland's words pierce through the mundanity of the everyday, creating intense emotional landscapes [...] With Milk Tooth, Sprackland continues to establish herself as one of Britain's finest young poets." Robert Greer, The London Magazine Review of previous work: "Sprackland refreshes the domestic and mundane in poems which are outwardly calm, but lit from within to reveal unusual visionary angles." Eric Gregory Award Judges 2014 Review of previous work: 'Martha Sprackland is already a formidable technician. The sonnet is moved through quatrains and and a kind of terza rima, and there is deft and adept free verse. The result is a calm, taut surface to the poems which belies the heightened, sometimes gothic nature of the subject matter." Ian Pople, The Manchester Review, Review of previous work: "Sprackland's words pierce through the mundanity of the everyday, creating intense emotional landscapes [...] With Milk Tooth, Sprackland continues to establish herself as one of Britain's finest young poets." Robert Greer, The London Magazine Review of previous work: "Sprackland refreshes the domestic and mundane in poems which are outwardly calm, but lit from within to reveal unusual visionary angles." Eric Gregory Award Judges 2014 Review of previous work: 'Martha Sprackland is already a formidable technician. The sonnet is moved through quatrains and and a kind of terza rima, and there is deft and adept free verse. The result is a calm, taut surface to the poems which belies the heightened, sometimes gothic nature of the subject matter." Ian Pople, The Manchester Review "[Citadel] is keenly responsive to questions of place and displacement... Sprackland's painterly visions linger long in the memory." Aingeal Clare, The Guardian, CITADEL is a book wherein the music and imagery map the emotion. So much fire comes to life in snapshots on these pages. Imagination here is just some remembering, from the other side, of course. And so the speaker sees her past: "the burning stars of our cigarettes danced / like gorseflowers we mixed screwdrivers / and kissed, and spewed and fought."I opened this book on a short poem called "Ablutions" and fell in love. The image of a man kneeling on the bathroom floor to clip his fingernails straight into the toiled suddenly became larger than itself, became a dwelling, became a world. Then, I turned to "Mercy," a very different poem, a myth, really, something inimitable.Perhaps it is the intimacy of human relationships in depicted in music and detail that sways me so. It makes trails and paths through speech, so a story as simple as two people sharing poached eggs on toast for breakfast becomes an epiphany, a moment wherein images startle, and "intention's kingly yolk / spills of the countertop."Or, take for instance a moment when a young girl lies ill in a room in London, her mother circles the building in her car for days while an orderly struggles to hold the girl's "shoulders like the handles of pneumatic drill." Hard to forget this. The images are electrifying.When this happens, something marvelous occurs: a domestic scene becomes "a blow to the head / enough to knock the earth from its orbit." I love this book.--Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa, Reviews 'So much fire comes to life in snapshots on these pages ... The images are electrifying. Something marvellous occurs: a domestic scene becomes "a blow to the head / enough to knock the earth from its orbit." I love this book.' Ilya Kaminsky Reviews for previous work 'Sprackland's words pierce through the mundanity of the everyday, creating intense emotional landscapes [...] With Milk Tooth, Sprackland continues to establish herself as one of Britain's finest young poets.' Robert Greer, The London Magazine 'Sprackland refreshes the domestic and mundane in poems which are outwardly calm, but lit from within to reveal unusual visionary angles.' Eric Gregory Award Judges 2014 'Martha Sprackland is already a formidable technician. The sonnet is moved through quatrains and and a kind of terza rima, and there is deft and adept free verse. The result is a calm, taut surface to the poems which belies the heightened, sometimes gothic nature of the subject matter.' Ian Pople, The Manchester Review '[A] commanding teller of the strange stories of others . . . Sprackland's best poems have the power of an irresistible tide.' Alison Brackenbury, PN Review '[V]iolence or (in this case) "terrible dynamism" is figured with a tender precision . . . Sprackland forces a wonderful fascination upon her readers.' Edwina Attlee, The Poetry Review, "Citadel is extraordinary. A chameleonic debut... I am deeply moved by this book, its tenderness and its violence." Jack Solloway, ''Top 10 books of 2020'' in Voice Magazine "The most arresting book that I''ve read this year is Martha Sprackland''s 51 pages of poetry, Citadel (Liverpool University Press). I''ve returned over and again to this little work of perfect art: the language is so lithe, exact and rich; the painterly images such a joy; the sensibility so fine and rare. Citadel has a careful, agile, flowing structure: many poems in the voice of a sixteenth-century Spanish queen, and others in Sprackland''s own. Her luxuriant conjuring eloquence about objects, places and emotion reminds me of Elizabeth Bishop''s." Richard Davenport-Hines, ''Books of the Year'' in The TLS "Citadel - despite its surface of smooth, confident lyricism - is a very strange book... Even the strangest descriptions have a rightness about them: ''The bright/ metallic snip like a speckled thrush tapping/ a snail against a stone'' is how Sprackland hears the sound of a man clipping his fingernails. How could anyone resist that?" Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph "[Citadel] is keenly responsive to questions of place and displacement... Sprackland''s painterly visions linger long in the memory." Aingeal Clare, The Guardian "Sprackland''s poetic process depends on the conversations held with an extreme figure from history, whose own voice has been long hidden, but without ever succumbing to biography or retelling. The end result is pleasingly strange; a collection which defies the limits of physics to find a timeslip between centuries old inner-city Spain and the north-west coastal towns of 21st century England." Hannah Whaley, Dundee Review of the Arts "Martha Sprackland has filled the pages with sharp, delicious and multi-layered verse. To meld the symbolic with the historic into an interior dreamscape of pain and glory is no easy task. Citadel is elaborate, robust, pleasurable, and built to last." David Morgan O''Connor, RHINO Poetry "So much fire comes to life in snapshots on these pages... The images are electrifying. Something marvellous occurs: a domestic scene becomes ''a blow to the head / enough to knock the earth from its orbit.'' I love this book." Ilya Kaminsky "Martha Sprackland''s poems are virtuosic in their timing, texture, and detailed evocation. From poems of the hospital to poems of the shore, this is a fierce and fresh debut that rings with courage and intelligence. Citadel will seize you by the heart and lead you into deep and resonant territories, and when you return you will find yourself changed, strange to yourself, and wondrously enriched." Fiona Benson Review for previous work: "Sprackland''s words pierce through the mundanity of the everyday, creating intense emotional landscapes [...] With Milk Tooth, Sprackland continues to establish herself as one of Britain''s finest young poets." Robert Greer, The London Magazine Review for previous work: "Sprackland refreshes the domestic and mundane in poems which are outwardly calm, but lit from within to reveal unusual visionary angles." Eric Gregory Award Judges 2014 Review for previous work: "Martha Sprackland is already a formidable technician. The sonnet is moved through quatrains and and a kind of terza rima, and there is deft and adept free verse. The result is a calm, taut surface to the poems which belies the heightened, sometimes gothic nature of the subject matter." Ian Pople, The Manchester Review Review for previous work: "[A] commanding teller of the strange stories of others . . . Sprackland''s best poems have the power of an irresistible tide." Alison Brackenbury, PN Review Review for previous work: "[V]iolence or (in this case) ''terrible dynamism'' is figured with a tender precision . . . Sprackland forces a wonderful fascination upon her readers." Edwina Attlee, The Poetry Review, Reviews for previous work 'Sprackland's words pierce through the mundanity of the everyday, creating intense emotional landscapes [...] With Milk Tooth, Sprackland continues to establish herself as one of Britain's finest young poets.' Robert Greer, The London Magazine 'Sprackland refreshes the domestic and mundane in poems which are outwardly calm, but lit from within to reveal unusual visionary angles.' Eric Gregory Award Judges 2014 'Martha Sprackland is already a formidable technician. The sonnet is moved through quatrains and and a kind of terza rima, and there is deft and adept free verse. The result is a calm, taut surface to the poems which belies the heightened, sometimes gothic nature of the subject matter.' Ian Pople, The Manchester Review '[A] commanding teller of the strange stories of others . . . Sprackland's best poems have the power of an irresistible tide.' Alison Brackenbury, PN Review '[V]iolence or (in this case) "terrible dynamism" is figured with a tender precision . . . Sprackland forces a wonderful fascination upon her readers.' Edwina Attlee, The Poetry Review
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2020-475090
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821/.92
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Pavilion Poetry Lup Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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