Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. This new collection of poems takes in the physical landscape, family and friendship, as well as the transience of both folklore and politics. In part an attempt to speak of what is submerged, these poems welcome that `splash of cold water to the face' that tells us we're alive. ""Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart.""--Poetry Daily.
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'Kissing a Bone, her second collection, adds a shrewd historicising sense to the lyric tenderness which glowed in her ï¬rst book. It takes us across borders - literal, emotional and ï¬gurative - into states of mind which are entirely her own, yet instantly recognisable by all us us' - Andrew Motion 'Sound Barrier...demonstrates beautifully the strength of this deceptively delicate, often very tender poet: how she marries spare lyrical cadences with political scepticism, packing a whole gamut of wit and sharp observation into very little space' - Ruth Padel, Financial Times --Financial Times
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Maura Dooley was born in Truro, grew up in Bristol, and after working for some years in Yorkshire now lives in London. She is a freelance writer and lectures at Goldsmiths' College. She edited Making for Planet Alice: New Women Poets (1997) and The Honey Gatherers: A Book of Love Poems (2002) for Bloodaxe, and How Novelists Work (2000) for Seren. Life Under Water (Bloodaxe Books, 2008) is her first new collection since Sound Barrier: Poems 1982-2002 (Bloodaxe Books, 2002), which drew on collections including Explaining Magnetism (1991) and Kissing a Bone (1996), both Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Like Kissing a Bone, Life Under Water is shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
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