{"product_id":"9781854112415-signs-round-a-dead-body","title":"Signs Round a Dead Body","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSigns Round a Dead Body\u003c\/i\u003e is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Deryn Rees-Jones's widely acclaimed first collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Tray\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer humour, sharp technique and preoccupation with the dilemmas of women are as apparent as ever, but there is now a more intense personal focus. Love, in all its permutations, suffuses this book, and sensuous details abound: from poems like 'Making Out' and 'From His Coy Mistress', about the fears and vacillations of love, to the disillusionment of the Nerudian 'Songs of Despair'. Informed by a sensibility at once passionate, intelligent and ironic, this new collection confirms Rees-Jones's place at the forefront of contemporary poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The pick of the crop, a magician with attitude, pinning ideas down but at the same time giving them time to breathe\"\u003cbr\u003eIan McMillan, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mighty poems. a direct line to the remembered and imagined life - so rare in writers, rarer still in young writers. her general reverence for bodies, and her generous remembrance of them makes her readers feel alive in ways they haven't felt before. It is not nostalgia, it is transport and return\"\u003cbr\u003eThomas Lynch \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeryn Rees-Jones\u003c\/b\u003e was educated at the University of Wales, Bangor, and Birkbeck College, London. She is an Eric Gregory Award winner, and \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Tray\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for a Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. In 1996 she received an Arts Council of England Writer's Award. She lives in Liverpool, where she lectures at the University of Liverpool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450853437814,"sku":"9781854112415","price":7.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28310765.jpg?v=1760454085","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781854112415-signs-round-a-dead-body","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}