Vertigo & Ghost

Awards:   Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2020 (UK) Short-listed for The Folio Prize 2020 (UK) Winner of Forward Prize for Best Collection 2019 (UK) Winner of Roehampton Prize 2019 (UK)
Author:   Fiona Benson
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
ISBN:  

9781787330818


Pages:   112
Publication Date:   03 January 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2020 (UK)
  • Short-listed for The Folio Prize 2020 (UK)
  • Winner of Forward Prize for Best Collection 2019 (UK)
  • Winner of Roehampton Prize 2019 (UK)

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Author:   Fiona Benson
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
Imprint:   Jonathan Cape Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 19.70cm
Weight:   0.131kg
ISBN:  

9781787330818


ISBN 10:   1787330818
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   03 January 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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Vertigo & Ghost explodes into furious life with a series of poems and fragments about the Greek god Zeus... jagged, staccato poems that shoot down the pages like lightning bolts... an addictive, thrilling, sickening experience. -- John Self * Guardian * Vertigo & Ghost knocked the breath from me. Such furious, fierce, ecstatic poems, at once brutal and heartachingly tender; I lay awake at night unable to stop thinking about them. Mothers and children, girls and women, their vulnerabilities and sorrows, fears amidst grave danger, their beautiful animal selves. Against a frightening darkness, these sore jewels radiate wild white-heat. -- Liz Berry Though this is only her second collection, it's already clear that Fiona Benson is an exceptional and exceptionally gifted poet. She has a fine ear and a sure hand. Her poems engage with what in our inner lives is most crucial and most at risk. There are poems in this book that scour the skin and must be read. -- David Harsent


Vertigo & Ghost knocked the breath from me. Such furious, fierce, ecstatic poems, at once brutal and heartachingly tender; I lay awake at night unable to stop thinking about them. Mothers and children, girls and women, their vulnerabilities and sorrows, fears amidst grave danger, their beautiful animal selves. Against a frightening darkness, these sore jewels radiate wild white-heat. -- Liz Berry Though this is only her second collection, it's already clear that Fiona Benson is an exceptional and exceptionally gifted poet. She has a fine ear and a sure hand. Her poems engage with what in our inner lives is most crucial and most at risk. There are poems in this book that scour the skin and must be read. -- David Harsent


Author Information

Fiona Benson lives in Devon with her husband and their two daughters. She has published two previous collections which were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize- Bright Travellers, which won the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry's Prize for First Full Collection, and Vertigo & Ghost, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize and won both the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection.

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