The Finders of London [Paperback]

Anna Robinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 9, 2010

Anna Robinson's first full collection, The Finders of London, introduces a compelling new voice in poetry. Her poems, set in and around the center of London, depict a capital both familiar and alien, peopled with figures contemporary and historical: from the residents of present-day Lambeth, to the victims of Jack the Ripper, and to those whose spirits are still embedded in the reflections of a plate-glass office window, in the earth beneath the author's feet, or in the flotsam washed up on the Thames beach. It's these working-class voices that lend strength to Robinson's own, and with it she mythologizes, catalogues, and searches for the anima and animus of this multi-natured city. ""'The Finders of London' is a choice pick for any poetry collection""-The Midwest Book Review

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Robinson's poetry achieves perfectly the public world lodged in the lyricalA" --Wayne Burrows, Poetry London

"'The Finders of London' is a choice pick for any poetry collection" --The Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Anna Robinson was born and lives in London. She has an MA in Public History from Ruskin College, Oxford. Her pamphlet, Songs from the flats, was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. She was the first recipient of The Poetry School Scholarship and her poetry was featured in the School's second anthology, Entering the Tapestry, (Enitharmon 2003). Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Poetry London, Brittle Star, In The Company of Poets (Hearing Eye 2003) and Oxford Poets 2007.As part of Poetry International and the South Bank Centre's Trading Places project, Robinson was Poet in Residence in Lower Marsh in 2006.A former tutor in prisons, she is a regular poetry judge for the Koestler Competition and is a founding editor for Not Shut Up! and the newly established Long Poem Magazine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 56 pages
• Publisher: Enitharmon Pr (December 9, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 190463494X
• ISBN-13: 978-1904634942
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,586,627 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A choice pick for any poetry collection, November 7, 2010

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This review is from: The Finders of London (Paperback)

London is a city that is over a thousand years old, and its history resonates strongly. "The Finders of London" is a collection of poetry from debut poet Anna Robinson, focusing on the long history of London and what it has come to mean to its people. "The Finders of London" is a choice pick for any poetry collection. "Lenten Moon": Above the plane tree in the park and moving fast -- Lenten Moon --/you silence the birds with fullness. Down here -- it's my neighbor's birthday; we sing and laugh not fasting much at all -- and you -- crisp/ as a crust moon, crow and sugar moon, light the yard.//Chaste Moon, they've got you wrong, you're not spotless, you/man-scars are vivid and dark. Stories of how the crow flies, birds/that become rabbits, the child that spoke and how we nearly died/ laughing, get told in the dark crisp air. Are you impressed? You're/ clear of the chimneys now and rising.