Between Clay and Star 2013 (Modern Poetry in Translation, Third Series)

Literature & Fiction

Dugdale, Sasha

Poetry

Modern Poetry in Translation

The poems in Joy mark a new departure for Sasha Dugdale, who expresses in poetry a hitherto ‘silent’ dialogue which she began as an editor of Modern Poetry in Translation with writers such as Don Mee Choi, Kim Hyesoon, Maria Stepanova and Svetlana Alexeivich. Dugdale combines an open interest in the historical fate of women and in the treacherous fictional shaping of history. In the abundant, complex and not always easy range of voices in Joy she attempts to redress the linear nature of remembrance and history and restore the ‘maligned and misaligned’.

Carcanet Press Ltd.

<p><div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2020. Deformations includes two large-scale works related in their preoccupation with biographical and mythical narrative. 'Welfare Handbook' explores the life and art of Eric Gill, the well-known English letter cutter, sculptor and cultural figure, who is known to have sexually abused his daughters. The poem draws on material from Gill's letters, diaries, notes and essays as part of a lyrical exploration of the conjunction between aesthetics, subjectivity and violence. 'Pitysad' is a series of simultaneously occurring fragments composed around themes and characters from Homer's Odyssey. It considers how trauma is disguised and deformed through myth and art. Acting as a bridge between these two works is a series of individual poems on the creation and destruction of cultural and mythical conventions.</div></p>

Deformations

<p>The Strongbox opens with the abduction of a woman to a foreign land and ends with the Rape of Europa.Drawing in elements of Greek mythology, epic literature and recent history, this protean work gives shape to a cast of characters both ancient and modern, as they flit in and out of tales, their voices overlapping and interacting.An unnamed girl is persuaded to leave behind her country and her childhood and travel to a warzone. Helen of Sparta, already trapped behind the walls of Ilium, is plagued by dreams about the coming conflict. Gods continue their manipulations, while mortals persist in defying the will of their gods.Through a series of interconnected scenes and dialogues this singular work traces the role of myth in shaping our accounts of both history and contemporary events.</p>

The Strongbox

Drawing upon her experiences as a worker in Russia and the worldly attitudes of artist J. M. W. Turner for inspiration, Sasha Dugdale links the poems in this collection through her belief in the creative power of artist and writer to not only record but also to transform reality. She writes of Russian lives with a knowledgeable insight, finding beauty and humanity in what at first appears bleak and desperate; of relationships; and of questions of identity. She is the observer, a woman standing alone as a crowd surges around her.

Notebook

Oxford Poets

Filled with striking imagery, this book of poems demonstrates the development of the poet’s voice from her first collection. The verses are permeated with allusions to Russian literature and classic myths and take inspiration from subjects as disparate as motherhood, art, and war.

The Estate

<p>The ghosts and presences that flit about on the margins of people’s lives are evoked in Sasha Dugdale’s third collection of poetry. They are found at the edge of towns where superstores and allotments blur an older landscape, in Europe where emigrants leave their gods, their neighbors, and their memories, and across the chalk Downs of the poet’s native Sussex. Haunted by history and confronted by primal brutalities, these poems trace the ghosts’ shapes through folk song, lament, and lyric poetry while proclaiming the fierce, bright authenticity that is all the proof we need that we’re alive.”</p>

Red House (Oxford Poets)

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