Asleep and Awake

Asleep and Awake
John Fuller
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Paperback
h216 x 135mm - 128pg
3 Dec 2020 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781784743659
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An elegantly jubilant and personal new collection celebrating love, life and creativity from award-winning poet and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist, John FullerIn this personal and characteristically brilliant new collection from John Fuller, an abundance of memories abound. From "those once endless years" of a childhood in wartime - tasting of Granny' s chicken soup, twizzers and cherry-go-rips - to the pattern of family and friendships, important milestones are brought to vivid life. In ' Before We Met - and After' a sequence of recollections cherish a wife on her eightieth birthday; ' In Whose Head' a piece by Schumann is revisited through advancing years; and in ' Keeper of the Fire' and ' In Memory of John Bayley' late poems of remembrance memorialise lost friends. These are poems of being and time, full of lyric feeling and Fuller' s distinctive wit and lightness of touch. Alive with the clang and sway of the "chosen colours of daily family life", together they form a resonant gathering of poems that celebrate, with thoughtfulness and joy, "the feel and length of our lives".
John Fuller, born in Ashford, Kent, is an acclaimed poet and novelist. His collection Stones and Fires (1996) was awarded the Forward Prize; Ghosts (2004) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for Poetry; The Space of Joy (2006) was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, and The Grey Among the Green (1988), Song & Dance (2008) and Pebble & I (2010) were all Poetry Book Society Recommendations. His 1983 novel Flying to Nowhere won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written collections of short stories and several books for children. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781784743659
Published: 3 Dec 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 128

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