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Frances Horovitz’s poems have the clarity of ballad and the power of myth. Her finely honed lyrics 'strike to areas of the soul as old as humanity itself'. Many were inspired by the remote Cotswold valley where she lived for ten years; others by the border country of Cumbria and the Welsh Marches.
Her posthumous Collected Poems (1985) was one of the landmark volumes of postwar British poetry. She was one of the finest ever readers of poetry, and this edition includes a QR code linked to a recording of her reading her poetry, made in 1982, with an interview, which can be played on a phone while reading her poems. The ebook with audio edition of this book includes the audio files which can be played on an iPad while reading the ebook.
Her posthumous Collected Poems (1985) was one of the landmark volumes of postwar British poetry. She was one of the finest ever readers of poetry, and this edition includes a QR code linked to a recording of her reading her poetry, made in 1982, with an interview, which can be played on a phone while reading her poems. The ebook with audio edition of this book includes the audio files which can be played on an iPad while reading the ebook.
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Imprint: Bloodaxe Books
Publication Date:
25 August 2011
ISBN: 9781852249250
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature
'She has perfect rhythm, great delicacy and a rather Chinese yet very locally British sense of landscape…her poetry does seem to me to approach greatness.'—Peter Levi.
'They drop like clear crystals into whatever cave of existence we share with darkness, and there set the deepest chambers echoing… Frances Horovitz inherits the mantle of Kathleen Raine and of Frances Bellerby. It is an honour to be able to say that her voice is not that of the ‘age’ but of the earth.’—Anne Stevenson. Poetry Review
'The Collected Poems are, after all, what we are left with when all the symposia and elegies have withered. One is reminded, gratefully, of John Updike’s appreciation of Wallace Stevens: “What a good use of life, to leave behind one beautiful book”.’—James Wood, The Times
'They drop like clear crystals into whatever cave of existence we share with darkness, and there set the deepest chambers echoing… Frances Horovitz inherits the mantle of Kathleen Raine and of Frances Bellerby. It is an honour to be able to say that her voice is not that of the ‘age’ but of the earth.’—Anne Stevenson. Poetry Review
'The Collected Poems are, after all, what we are left with when all the symposia and elegies have withered. One is reminded, gratefully, of John Updike’s appreciation of Wallace Stevens: “What a good use of life, to leave behind one beautiful book”.’—James Wood, The Times
Frances Horovitz (1938-85) was greatly loved and respected not only as a poet, but also as a broadcaster and performer of poetry, notably of Thomas Hardy and John Keats with biographer Robert Gittings, and readings of Russian women poets in Among the Witnesses on BBC Radio 3. She was one of our finest readers of poetry, possessing a rare ability to hear a poem and become its voice. She published four collections of poems, including Water Over Stone (Enitharmon Press, 1980) and Snow Light, Water Light (Bloodaxe Books, 1983). She died in 1983, aged 45, after a long illness. Her Collected Poems (1985) was edited by her husband, the poet and critic Roger Garfitt, with a new edition issued in 2011 with an audio CD of her reading her work included. Those readings are now available on SoundCloud via a QR code added with a track list to the current printing of the book (which no longer includes a CD).