Review
'Anne Rouse's poems are watchful and amused, sardonic and appalled. They are also in the best sense political: the big picture of our whole society informs her miniatures of city life where dossers and shopping jostle for attention alongside love and death.' - Ruth Padel & Sean O'Brien, PBS Bulletin 'Rouse has honed her craft further to produce some lovely focused lyrics with a wonderful development in her tone. The sureness of Rouse's touch is a pleasure to read throughout and The School of Night is her most moving volume yet.' - Andrew Neilson, Magma ' - this powerful collection - The reader is surprised and pleased and informed by the conclusions the poet leads us to, by her often poignant himour and shocks of transcendence that are rooted in a natural and unforced realism.' - Penelope Shuttle, Poetry London 'Rouse writes - with such convinced skewing of the expected angles, and with such precise anger and sympathy, that one is inclined to believe her as well as to admire the poems.' - Sean O'Brien, Sunday Times
Product Description
Rouse is a keenly observant writer of spiky satirical portraits and shapely lyrics of the ordinary and the bizarre. Her latest book, The Upshot, includes a new collection, `The Divided,' which constructs a modern metaphysic out of love and the daily, set against the latent (sometimes tragic) divisions in contemporary society.
