Georges Perec is my hero

poems by Caron Freeborn

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, British & Irish
Cover of the book Georges Perec is my hero by Caron Freeborn, Earlyworks Press
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Author: Caron Freeborn ISBN: 9781906451707
Publisher: Earlyworks Press Publication: January 6, 2016
Imprint: Circaidy Gregory Press Language: English
Author: Caron Freeborn
ISBN: 9781906451707
Publisher: Earlyworks Press
Publication: January 6, 2016
Imprint: Circaidy Gregory Press
Language: English

The shock of beauty in an unsafe world

Caron Freeborn won first place in the Earlyworks Press 2014 Poetry Collection competition. This collection of her work, with photography by Steve Armitage, is the result. These poems "speak a remarkable vision of the world. Anybody’s world, but one resonant with a landscape of scarred, bleak surfaces made real and welcoming by human resourcefulness. […] The many voices that inhabit the poems add up to a fierce, precise, cocky, compassionate, intelligent, observant, direct, and (largely) unsentimental work of art. The whole book is a sampler of unobtrusive poetic skill." - Ian Patterson: poet, translator, critic.

"Caron Freeborn’s ear for speech, her eye for the strange and telling detail, her empathy with the outsider and the shock of beauty in her strange and sometimes unsafe worlds, push the boundaries of language and form. This is where poetry should go. Freeborn shows us how."   - Elizabeth Speller, prize-winning poet and novelist

"There are so many truths you might take away from Caron Freeborn's extraordinary, ambitious poems, but I'll mention only these two: firstly, that Caron Freeborn loves language; secondly, that the language loves her back."  - Joanne Limburg, Bloodaxe poet, novelist and memoirist

How are we to speak of these 'common things', how to track them down rather, flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, finally, speak of what is, of what we are. - Georges Perec, from ‘L'infra-ordinaire’, in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Penguin: 1997)

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The shock of beauty in an unsafe world

Caron Freeborn won first place in the Earlyworks Press 2014 Poetry Collection competition. This collection of her work, with photography by Steve Armitage, is the result. These poems "speak a remarkable vision of the world. Anybody’s world, but one resonant with a landscape of scarred, bleak surfaces made real and welcoming by human resourcefulness. […] The many voices that inhabit the poems add up to a fierce, precise, cocky, compassionate, intelligent, observant, direct, and (largely) unsentimental work of art. The whole book is a sampler of unobtrusive poetic skill." - Ian Patterson: poet, translator, critic.

"Caron Freeborn’s ear for speech, her eye for the strange and telling detail, her empathy with the outsider and the shock of beauty in her strange and sometimes unsafe worlds, push the boundaries of language and form. This is where poetry should go. Freeborn shows us how."   - Elizabeth Speller, prize-winning poet and novelist

"There are so many truths you might take away from Caron Freeborn's extraordinary, ambitious poems, but I'll mention only these two: firstly, that Caron Freeborn loves language; secondly, that the language loves her back."  - Joanne Limburg, Bloodaxe poet, novelist and memoirist

How are we to speak of these 'common things', how to track them down rather, flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, finally, speak of what is, of what we are. - Georges Perec, from ‘L'infra-ordinaire’, in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Penguin: 1997)

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