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Ruth Fainlight

Somewhere Else Entirely

Ruth Fainlight

Publication Date : 15 Nov 2018

ISBN: 9781780374383

Pages: 65
Size :216 x 138mm
Rights: World

Ruth Fainlight is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Born in New York City, she has lived mostly in England since the age of 15, publishing her first collection, Cages, in 1966, and her retrospective, New & Collected Poems, in 2010. Her poems 'give us truly new visions of usual and mysterious events' (A.S. Byatt). Each is a balancing act between thought and feeling, revealing otherness within the everyday, often measuring subtle shifts in relationships between women and men. 

She has always drawn on a wide range of subject-matter, yet the arc of her attention has shifted in her later work, the meaning and effect of the passage of time becoming more central and fascinating as she ages. Written during her 80s, the poems of Somewhere Else Entirely are shadowed by the death of her husband Alan Sillitoe. The book also includes several short pieces of prose, memoirs of childhood years spent in the USA: firstly, those from zero to five years old, then a group about the ages between 10 and 15, during the Second World War, when their mother took her and her brother Harry back to their American birthplace. 

‘Ruth Fainlight is an American-born poet, now eighty-eight, who moved to England at the age of sixteen… She published a New and Collected Poems in 2010, and the motherhood poems of her first collection Cages (1966), as well as the elegy for Plath, “Autumn Stirring”, provide a useful context for the humility, the acquired wisdom and uncertainty we find in her latest book, Somewhere Else Entirely, which is a welcome addition to her considerable achievement.’ – Kathryn Maris, Times Literary Supplement

'Her New & Collected Poems, representing half a century's work, asks us to read her writing life as a journey that never really ends, even with publication of a monumental achievement...an extraordinary maturity of voice and vision. The essential continuity of her work is immediately striking; the poems affirm her own sense of poetry (and life) as a constant happening, the past a perpetual present.' – Fran Brearton, The Guardian

 

Ruth Fainlight reads six poems

Ruth Fainlight reads six poems from her New & Collected Poems: ‘Passenger’, ‘Handbag’, ’The Crescent’, ‘Elegant Sybil’, ‘Opera in Holland Park’ and ’Chained Angel’. Neil Astley filmed her at her home in Notting Hill, London, in November 2011. This film is from the DVD-anthology In Person: World Poets, filmed & edited by Pamela Robertson-Pearce & Neil Astley (Bloodaxe Books, 2017).


 

  

BOOKS BY Ruth Fainlight

New & Collected Poems

Ruth Fainlight

New & Collected Poems

Publication Date : 25 Nov 2010

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Somewhere Else Entirely exhibition on Ruth Fainlight in Nottingham, 25 Mar-13 May. Ruth & photographer Emily Andersen interviewed on BBC Radio Nottingham. Free in...

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