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Product details
- ISBN 9781852249250
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2011
- Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Frances Horovitz’s poems have the clarity of ballad and the power of myth. Her finely honed lyrics 'strike to areas of the soul as old as humanity itself'. Many were inspired by the remote Cotswold valley where she lived for ten years; others by the border country of Cumbria and the Welsh Marches.
Her posthumous Collected Poems (1985) was one of the landmark volumes of postwar British poetry. She was one of the finest ever readers of poetry, and this edition includes a QR code linked to a recording of her reading her poetry, made in 1982, with an interview, which can be played on a phone while reading her poems. The ebook with audio edition of this book includes the audio files which can be played on an iPad while reading the ebook.
Frances Horovitz (1938-85) was greatly loved and respected not only as a poet, but also as a broadcaster and performer of poetry, notably of Thomas Hardy and John Keats with biographer Robert Gittings, and readings of Russian women poets in Among the Witnesses on BBC Radio 3. She was one of our finest readers of poetry, possessing a rare ability to hear a poem and become its voice. She published four collections of poems, including Water Over Stone (Enitharmon Press, 1980) and Snow Light, Water Light (Bloodaxe Books, 1983). She died in 1983, aged 45, after a long illness. Her Collected Poems (1985) was edited by her husband, the poet and critic Roger Garfitt, with a new edition issued in 2011 with an audio CD of her reading her work included. Those readings are now available on SoundCloud via a QR code added with a track list to the current printing of the book (which no longer includes a CD).
