Selected Poems

A major selection from Monk's work, including a significant choice from Interregnum, here combined with new sequences not previously published. This is a substantial volume from a key British writer whose approachable experimental works are filled with wit, linguistic virtuosity and a sound grasp of the shifting realities of the worlds we live in.

List of contents

• Long Wake
• Rotations
• La Quinta del Sordo
• Banquet
• Angles Diversions Corners
• Animal Crackers
• Sky Scrapers
• Herein Lie Tales of Two Inner Cities
• Latitudes
• Interregnum
• Trilogy
• Manufractured Moon
• The Transparent Ones
• Insubstantial Thoughts on the Transubstantiation of the Text.
• Absent Friends

About the author

Geraldine Monk was born in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1952. Since first being published in the 1970s she has written six major collections of poetry and numerous chapbooks. Her writing has appeared extensively in the both the UK and the USA. As an extension to her activities in poetry she collaborates with many musicians including Martin Archer, Charlie Collins and Julie Tippetts. A collection of essays on her poetry, The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk, edited by Scott Thurston, was brought out in 2007 by Salt Publishing.

Product details

• Authors: Geraldine Monk
• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2003
• EAN: 9781876857691
• ISBN: 978-1-876857-69-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 355 g
• Series: Salt Modern Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies