Author: Sharon Olds

‘A collection of poems that give rich drama to ordinary experience, deepening our sense of what it means to be human.’—Pulitzer Prize finalist citation ‘There is a broad, powerful streak of inde …

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A fordító huszonöt amerikai költő összesen százegy versét válogatta kétnyelvű antológiába. Olyan költők verseit, akik kortársaink a második ezredforduló tájékán. Igyekezett színes képet kapni – és mu …

The latest volume in Penguin Modern Poets series – moving and unflinchingly honest poems from three different cultures about experiences of the female body, the family, sexual politics and conflict Y …

The Unswept Room is a dazzling collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and rhythm, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humour. From poems that erupt o …

Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony. The opening poem, with its sequen …

Sharon Olds divides this new book into five sections – ‘Blood’, ‘Tin’, ‘ ‘Straw’, ‘ ‘Fire’ and ‘Light’ – each made up of fourteen poems whose dominant imagery is drawn from one of these elements. The …

Over the last five years, Sharon Olds’ poetry has become widely read and celebrated in Britain. Frank and exhilarating, sensual and profound, the poems stare, unblinking, at sex and death and love – …

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize Stag’s Leap, Sharon Olds’ stunningly poignant new sequence of poems, tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, s …

Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry ‘pure fire in the hands’ and cheered the ‘roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through ro …

Interspersed with acts of breathtaking linguistic daring. Charlotte Mendelson, Observer Book of the Year Opening with a powerful and tender Ode to the Hymen , Sharon Olds uses this age-old poetic for …

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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE*Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman s intimate life and political conscience …

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Arguably America’s greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times: a book of fear, fragility and love of life***NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST******AN OBSERVER BO …