The Striped World

Author(s): Emma Jones

Poetry

With their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands. Emma Jones brings her inventive worlds dramatically to life in a series of vividly distilled meetings: of settlers and indigenous peoples, of seawaters and shore, of humanity and the wilds of nature. Here tigers stalk the captive and the free, while Death encounters his own double and Daphne tells of her new leaves, 'They sing, and make the world.' The same might be said of the poems themselves in this restless and memorable search for belonging.


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A hypnotic debut from a thrilling new talent.

Winner of Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2009. Shortlisted for John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2009.

Emma Jones was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, and a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge. In 2005 she won the Newcastle Poetry Prize, Australia's largest prize for a single poem, and has been the recipient of an emerging writer's grant from the Australia Council for the Arts, and the Harper-Wood Studentship in English Poetry and Literature from St John's College, Cambridge.

General Fields

  • : 9780571245383
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : 0.09
  • : January 2009
  • : 200mm X 132mm X 6mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Emma Jones
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 821.92
  • : 64