Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 62
ISBN: 9780907476702
Publication date: February 23, 1995
Price: £3.95
A falling tortoise is a bizarre way to meet one’s end, but it is typical of Sheenagh Pugh’s wry humour that it finds a place in her poetry. The more humorous aspects of mortality and human frailty receive the same alert consideration as sombre subjects such as dictatorship, torture, the Dieppe raid and pollution. Whether describing the significance of the maximum break in snooker or exploring the mind of a Nazi, Sheenagh Pugh’s individual voice resonates throughout her finely crafted poetry.
Sheenagh Pugh
Sheenagh Pugh is known to thousands of poetry readers for ‘Sometimes’, her much anthologised ‘poem on the underground’ and for her Selected Poems, a set text in schools. Sheenagh has published nine collections of poetry and translations plus a Selected Poems and a sort of mini-Selected, two novels and critical study of fan fiction.
She used to lecture in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan, and has won numerous prizes for her work, including the Babel Prize for translation and the Arts Council of Wales’ Book of the Year in 2000. For more information about Sheenagh Pugh visit her writing blog at www.sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com
