Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 64
ISBN: 9781854112736
Publication date: December 10, 1999
Price: £7.95
The fate of an Italian icon damaged by floods, a Victorian skeleton, and a Vampire Ballet are amongst the many unusual subjects of the poems in this collection by Catherine Fisher. Lyrical grace combined with a sharp eye for imagery and a precise use of language are her hallmarks. Her themes are history, religion, and distinctively for this book, memory, highlighted in her sequence about an amnesiac and in the final section of sonnets, an imaginative chronicle of immigrant forebears.
Catherine Fisher
Catherine Fisher is the author of four volumes of poetry for Seren: Immrama, The Unexplored Ocean, Altered States and The Bramble King. She is also a novelist for children; her books include The Conjurer’s Game which was shortlisted for the Smarties prize in 1992 and has been serialised on Radio 5. Her novel The Clockwork Crow (2018) was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Prize.
