The Mirabelles

By Annie Freud

An exciting new collection from the prize-winning poet Annie Freud - A PBS ChoiceAnnie Freud's award-winning first collection, The Best Man That Ever Was, introduced readers to a remarkably versatile new voice; The Mirabelles delivers a similarly exhilarating cornucopia - the Mask of Temporary Madness, Marc Almond, mini-novels a sonnet long, Carottes Vichy, and the most gripping account of a billiard game you'll ever read. However, in a new sequence derived from family letters, Freud has invented almost a new kind of writing: neither 'found' nor 'made' in the conventional sense, these poems are profoundly moving, and startling in their boldly unfashionable lack of irony. Elsewhere The Mirabelles is full of the world-stuff - the clothes and food, the art and social intrigues - with which we dress and conceal our deeper emotions and appetites. In the end, this is a book about reality and its representations, and the truth and lies we tell about ourselves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0330519077
• ISBN13: 9780330519076
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Picador (UK)
• Length: 61 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.5"