Ransom

Informationen zum Autor Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1963. He has published eight collections of poetry and received a number of accolades including the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Award and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. His Selected Poems was published in 2016. As a librettist, his work has been performed in concert halls and opera houses around the world, and he is an award-winning broadcaster and dramatist. He is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, his Quartet for the End of Time: On Music, Grief and Birdsong was published in 2025. Klappentext *A FINANCIAL TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK*Ransom, the new collection from Michael Symmons Roberts, is an intense and vivid exploration of liberty and limit, of what it means to be alive, and searches for the possibility of hope in a fallen, wounded world. Zusammenfassung *A FINANCIAL TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK*Ransom, the new collection from Michael Symmons Roberts, is an intense and vivid exploration of liberty and limit, of what it means to be alive, and searches for the possibility of hope in a fallen, wounded world.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Symmons Roberts, Michael Symmons Roberts
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781787333123
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-312-3
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 9 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Modern and contemporary poetry / poems