Author:Michael Symmons Roberts
Winner of the 2013 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection
Shortlisted for the 2013 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize
Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Poetry Award
Shortlisted for the 2015 Portico Prize
In an innovative digital first for Cape poetry, hear Michael Symmons Roberts read the entirity of his prize-winning collection, Drysalter and introduce the ideas behind the poetry.
Michael Symmons Roberts’ sixth – and most ambitious collection to date – takes its name from the ancient trade in powders, chemicals, salts and dyes, paints and cures. These poems offer a similarly potent and sensory multiplicity, unified through the formal constraint of 150 poems of 15 lines.
Like the medieval psalters echoed in its title, this collection contains both the sacred and profane. Here are hymns of praise and lamentation, songs of wonder and despair, journeying effortlessly through physical and metaphysical landscapes, from financial markets and urban sprawl to deserts and dark nights of the soul.
From an encomium to a karaoke booth to a conjuration of an inverse Antarctica, this collection is a compelling, powerful search for meaning, truth and falsehood. But, as ever in Roberts’ work – notably the Whitbread Award-winning Corpus – this search is rooted in the tangible world, leavened by wit, contradiction, tenderness and sensuality.
This is Roberts’ most expansive writing yet: mystical, philosophical, earthy and elegiac. Drysalter sings of the world’s unceasing ability to surprise, and the shock and dislocation of catching your own life unawares.
He displays an amazing talent for intimacy on paper – sometimes, it almost takes your breath away.
—— Kate Kellaway , ObserverIt's all implicit, subtle, hypnotic and often beautiful.
—— Monocle150 poems of 15 lines, combining dazzling elegance and a rare imaginative humility.
—— Sean O'Brien , Independent150 poems of fifteen lines, tackling multiple subjects from peeling an orange to the universe's "scattergram of long-dead suns". Not a dud among them.
—— Adam Thorpe , Times Literary SupplementRoberts’ most ambitious collection offers a potent and sensory multiplicity.
—— Good Book GuideAnne Rice has done it again. In her latest novel, The Wolf Gift, the woman who single-handedly, reinvented the vampire genre puts her formidable talent to work rewriting 'were-wolf' lore and in the end succeeds magnificently.
—— Examiner[A]n energetic gambol, feisty and terrific fun. . . . [A] fast-paced, heady romp that ranks with her best. . . The Wolf Gift is irresistible.
—— The Dallas Morning News[I]n Rice's hands, The Wolf Gift evolves from a fantastical romp into an engrossing thriller. . .
—— San Francisco ChronicleWilde at his height, in The Picture of Dorian Gray (like The Wolf Gift, a morality tale about transformation), is Rice’s true precursor. He preferred paradox to uncomplicated alternatives, and was most at home in the dark light of ghost stories, church shadows and fairy tales. This is the energy of The Wolf Gift. It is wit-filled, languid and vibrant, brainy and snarling. It will leave open-minded readers howling for more.
—— The Globe and MailA superior thriller... the mix of ancient and modern, familiar and inventive, and the fact that Rice easily drops in elements that other people would save for a quick sequel – all this proves there is MORE in this book. And ultimately that means more satisfaction.
—— bookbag.co.ukI didn't want to put it down for a second.
—— warpcoresf.co.ukThe Wolf Gift is pure Anne Rice. It is dark. It is romantic. It is fast-paced and gripping. It is engaging and perhaps most importantly, it is fresh. Anne Rice has done with werewolves, exactly what she’s done for vampires, witches and angels and given them a complete make-over and her individual twist on their background. She’s re-invented and re-written the mythology of the genre.
—— iamelpi.comAnne Rice of the famous Vampire Chronicles is back, but this time she has put her fangs away and comes baring claws... This is sure to mark the beginning of a new saga for Rice and is equally sure to the guilty pleasure for many a fantasy horror fan.
—— welovethisbook.com
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