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Shrines of Upper Austria

ISBN-13: 9781784105341
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
By Phoebe Power
Price: AUD $24.99
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Local release date: 20/04/2018
Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 72 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

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Google Preview: Wandering in central Europe, a traveller observes and records a landscape of lakes, folk culture and uneasy histories. Phoebe Powers Shrines of Upper Austria gathers numerous stories and perspectives, such as the fragmented narrative of an Austrian woman who married a British soldier after the Second World War, and the voices of schoolchildren and immigrants. Strange discoveries are made: a grave for two dead goats; a lantern procession on the night of Epiphany; a baby abandoned by a river; a homemade frog-puppet.; Phoebe Power received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2012 and a Northern Writers' Award in 2014. Her poems have been published in journals and anthologies including The Rialto, Oxford Poetry and The White Review. She has recently collaborated with other artists on projects including a live performance of her pamphlet Harp Duet (Eyewear, 2016), and Christl, a video installation involving poetry, visual art and sound. She currently lives in York.; First full debut from promising young poet (2009 Foyle Young Poet of the Year, and winner of a 2012 Eric Gregory Award and a 2014 Northern Writers' Award); A young woman searching for love and understanding in 21st century Britain finds herself away from home. Wandering in rural Austria, she observes and records a landscape of mountains, folk culture and uneasy histories; A celebration of creativity in unlikely places and a reconsideration of the terms `foreign' and `home'; Multiple lives, anecdotes and voices are dispersed within the text; 'It is rare for me to read a collection aloud, to feel that it must be voiced. It is a testament to the quality of Power's work that not only did I do this once, but several times, and what's more, relish each repeated reading' - Sabotage Reviews; `Phoebe Power, in this accomplished, formally restless debut collection, yokes together some very surprising things: political musings, quasi-comic consumerist dilemmas, fascinated and bemused observations of Austrian custom, transcribed vocal fragments, family history, even - at one point - a murder mystery. You feel there is nothing her acute poetic eye cannot absorb. All this incorrigible plurality is united by an intelligence at once satirical and scrupulous, probing and tender. Hers is surely one of the freshest new voices to emerge in years.' - Caitriona O'Reilly; Google Preview content