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Poets' Wives Paperback Book

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Compelling literary fiction
Exploring poets' spouses
Intimate character studies
Acclaimed modern storytelling
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From awardwinning writer David Park, an absorbing account of the lives of the women most important to three poets William Blake, Osip Mandlestam and an imagined contemporary Irish poetAn outstanding novel, written in luminous accessible prose, thoroughly enjoyable and much deeper even than the sum of its excellent parts Irish TimesThe Poets Wives is a marvellous triptych lyrical, respectful of creativity but also sharply sceptical Sunday TimesThree women, each destined to play the role of a poets wife Catherine Blake, the wife of William Blake a poet, painter and engraver who struggles for recognition in a society that dismisses him as a madman Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, whose poetry costs him his life under Stalins terror and the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish poet, who looks back on her marriage during the days after her husbands death as she seeks to fulfil his final wish.Set across continents and centuries, and in very different circumstances, these three women confront the contradictions between art and life, contemplate their emotional and physical sacrifices for anothers creativity, and struggle with infidelities that involve not only the flesh, but ultimately poetry itself. They find themselves custodians of their husbands work, work that has been woven with loves intimacies and which has shaped their own lives in the most unexpected of ways. Deeply insightful and beautifully wrought, The Poets Wives is David Park at his...

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Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: FA; Weight: 366 g; Dimensions: 131 x 198 x 24

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