Michael Symmons Roberts
Description
His poetry has won the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award, and been shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. He has received major awards from the Arts Council and the Society of Authors. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and of the English Association.-website
Books
The miracles of Jesus
The Half-Healed
The poems in Michael Symmons Roberts’s fifth collection move in a world riven by violence and betrayal, between nations and individuals. As ever, this is a metaphysical poetry rooted in physical detail – but the bodies here are displaced, disguised, in need of rescue. A man in a fox suit prowls the woods afraid of meeting true foxes, while a vixen dressed as a man moves among the powerful at society soirées. God no longer ‘walks in his garden in the cool of the day’, but drives through a damaged city in the small hours. At the same time a couple celebrate armistice with an act of love in an anonymous hotel room.-author
Deaths of the Poets
"In this book, two contemporary poets undertake a series of journeys – across Britain, America and Europe – to the death places of poets of the past, in part as pilgrims, honouring inspirational writers, but also as investigators, interrogating the myth. The result is a book that is, in turn, enlightening and provocative, eye-wateringly funny and powerfully moving." --Publisher description.
Breath
> An amazing page turner! You'll never want to put this book down. Behind each page makes you wonder what's going to happen to the main character > Blockquote , Salz is an eccentric boy with a very strong will to live. Though, sticken with cystic fibrosis, his journey is an amazing and exciting adventure to find out truely how to survive and how to defy all reality. > [An] achingly poinant story about survival and the power of love. > Blockquote -VOYA (Back of the Book) SALZ IS A BOY AFFLICTED WITH cystic fibrosis - though in the Middle Ages in Saxony no one can identify it as such. Instead he is an outcast, living with his unfeeling father and superstitious brothers in a hovel outside Hameln. His grandmother has kept Salz alive by having him avoid the mead and beer commonly drunk by all and by teaching him how to clear his lungs. When the townsfolk of Hameln are affected by a mold that grows on the hops - poisoning their mead and beer - Salz is one of the few who are unaffected. The mold's effect is hallucinogenic, and soon Hameln is in the grips of a plague of madness, followed by a plague of rats. It is only Salz who can proclaim the truth - although it might cost him his life. I will say a few things of my own now. One it's really an exellent book so don't get me wrong but just the way it's written is kind of, well a head shaker. To see what I mean you just must read it. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SPOILER ALERT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Salz is an odd name and it's a special name, every letter in his name means something special that his family considered to be him. S is for Soul's Salvation A is for Activity and Ability L is for Loyalty and Light Heartedness and Z is for Zeal in Making Money He also remarks that the letters A, L, and Z are wishful thinking. thats the end of my review, n_n Thanx, adieu!!