Sheenagh Pugh: Selected Poems (Border Lines) by Sheenagh Pugh

Product Information\n\nSelected Poems: Sheenagh Pugh by Sheenagh Pugh Paperback\n\nClick on the Image to Enlarge zoom_in\n\nDESCRIPTION\nHere is the best of Sheenagh Pugh's early work: a generous and wide-ranging selection from her first four collections, together with two dozen previously unpublished pieces Notable inclusions are the prize-winning 'M.S.A' and 'Intercity Lullaby', and the much-anthologised 'Sometimes.' Throughout, a lively and enquiring mind is brought to bear on how we live and die, and how we might live more equitably. Sheenagh Pugh approaches her subject unpredictably, through Norse saga and snooker, apartheid and falling tortoises, in a poetry of invention and conviction At the heart of the book is the Earth Studies sequence, \""a history of the world in 19 poems', and the first major environmental poem of the \""green\"" era. Set in the indeterminate future, it explores the rise of human civilisation, and abuse of the Earth, following them to their logical conclusim