Signs round a dead body
By: Deryn Rees-Jones.
Publisher: Seren
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Bridgend, Wales
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Description: "Signs Round a Dead Body is the follow-up to Deryn Rees-Jones's widely acclaimed first collection, The Memory Tray. Her humour, sharp technique and preoccupation with the dilemmas of women are as apparent as ever, but there is now a more intense personal focus. Love, in all its permutations, suffuses this book, and sensuous details abound: from poems like 'Making Out' and 'From His Coy Mistress', about the fears and vacillations of love, to the disillusionment of the Nerudian 'Songs of Despair'. Informed by a sensibility at once passionate, intelligent and ironic, this new collection confirms Rees-Jones's place at the forefront of contemporary poetry."--BOOK JACKET.