So Many Moving Parts

Name: So Many Moving Parts
Brand: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
SKU: 9781852249526
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By (author): Tiffany Atkinson

So Many Moving Parts, Tiffany Atkinson's third collection, is an eccentric 21st-century meditation on the awkwardness of body and spirit and their unexpected, often unwanted intrusions into the business of everyday life. Lyrical and experimental by turns, these poems push familiar events - commuting, telephones, babysitting, foreign travel - to open out toward unanswerable questions and elemental connections with an unstable physical world. A cast of real people observed over a year reveal momentary dramas as in a series of sketches, and the poet turns an ironic, unflinching eye on her own generation's transition from youth to middle age. Bold, wishful, ambivalent, sometimes even grudgingly affectionate, the collection is a spiky celebration of the almost invisible revelations that insist when you only look closely enough. Winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year). See more

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Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
Publication Date: 30 Jan 2014
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781852249526

About Tiffany Atkinson

Tiffany Atkinson was born in Berlin in 1972 to an army family and lived in Wales after moving to Cardiff to take a PhD in Critical Theory. After teaching at Aberystwyth University for some years she is now Professor in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She won the Cardiff Academi International Poetry Competition in 2001. Her first collection Kink and Particle (Seren 2006) a Poetry Book Society Recommendation won the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award. Catulla et al (Bloodaxe Books 2011) her second collection was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year) in 2012 and was a TLS Book of the Year. Her third collection So Many Moving Parts (Bloodaxe Books 2014) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year) in 2015. She is the editor of a theoretical textbook The Body: A Reader (2003) and has strong research interests in the medical humanities especially the history of anatomy and representations of the body. Her fourth collection Lumen (Bloodaxe Books 2021) includes a sequence exploring representations of pain illness and recovery work that won the 2014 Medicine Unboxed Prize. She is currently working on a series of critical essays about the poetics of embarrassment.