Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 62
ISBN: 9781854110855
Publication date: March 1, 1993
Price: £5.95
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Her characteristic wit and precision are fully in evidence in Sheenagh Pugh’s Sing for the Taxman. Dedicated to the proposition that poetry must, first of all, entertain the reader, these poems give delight on first reading and pleasure upon contemplation.
A day mountain climbing inspires the beautiful three-part pastoral ’Climbing Hermaness’, that opens the book. In ’Five Voices’, we learn about the strange and tragic execution of Lieutenant Hans Hermann von Katte in 1730, through the dramatic confessions of his intimates. Later we meet, among others, ‘Mozart Playing Billiards’, ‘The Last Wolf in Scotland’, and Guy Fawkes’ girlfriend (‘Remember, Remember’). Half a dozen of Sheenagh Pugh’s excellent translations from the poetry of Jammes, Holty, Von Hofmannswaldau and others, round off this thoroughly enjoyable collection.
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
