Ransom
$24.03
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
18 May 2021
Summary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021 A FINANCIAL TIMES ‘BOOKS OF 2021’ PICK
Ransom, the new collection from Michael Symmons Roberts, is an intense and vivid exploration of liberty and limit, of what it means to be alive, and searches for the possibility of hope in a fallen, wounded world. The poems in Ransom display all the lyrical beauty and metaphysical ambition for which his work is acclaimed, but with a new urgency, a ragged edge to what the Independ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787333123 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787333124 |
| Author: | Michael Symmons Roberts |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 18 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 129g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 9mm |
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Critics Review
One of the finest poet writing today… Ransom … moved me greatly.
One of the finest poets writing today… Ransom… moved me greatly. – Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *
Wonderfully atmospheric. – Tristram Fane Saunders * Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
Michael Symmons Roberts
Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire. He has published eight collections of poetry and received a number of accolades including the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Award and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. His Selected Poems was published in 2016. As a librettist, his work has been performed in concert halls and opera houses around the world, and he is an award-winning broadcaster and dramatist. He is professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, his Quartet for the End of Time- On Music, Grief and Birdsong was published in 2025.
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