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- ISBN 9781852249922
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2014
- Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Annemarie Austin's vividly imaginative poems explore other worlds and other lives, drawing upon her own memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and literature. Track is her first new collection since her Bloodaxe retrospective Very: New & Selected Poems (2008). There are journeys here. The track may be a railway or a path, and perhaps there's one main route - to the boiler house. There are figures seen on their way and those standing still - the living statue, the woman in camera and the one who's reached the last resort. And creatures too, mourning the death of Pan or trapped in the pound. And behind all these the unreliability of perception, the tension between what can be seen and what cannot, the pressure of space upon the drawn lines, the breakdown of speech in the face of 'the plain gap'.
Annemarie Austin was born in Devon and grew up on the Somerset Levels and in Weston-super-Mare, where has lived for most of her life. She won the Cheltenham Literature Festival Poetry Competition in 1980, and her first collection, The Weather Coming (1987), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Very: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008) includes work from all her collections, including On the Border (1993), The Flaying of Marsyas (1995), Door upon Door (1999) and Back from the Moon (2003). She has since published a new collection, Track (2014).
