Still life
Subtitle: poems from the cheshire prize for literature 2010
By: edited by Emma Rees ; front cover image, Luiz Meléndez
Publisher: University of Chester Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chester [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781908258809; 9781905929887
Subjects: English Short stories; Nouvelles anglaises
Description: In a hot Spanish kitchen a little boy's mouth waters as he daydreams about the citrus tang of freshly-squeezed juice; in the weak sunlight outside a Russian Orthodox church, splinters of wood dance like so many motes of dust; and in a camp in Germany three prisoners of war look upwards and marvel at the near-weightless liberty of the birds they see. These are some of the exquisite moments almost visual in their vibrancy that are captured in the pages of Still Life. In this rich and textured anthology, the mundane is transfi gured as poets attempt to answer or at least to establish the big ques.