Author:Sharon Olds
Over the last five years, Sharon Olds' poetry has become widely read and celebrated in Britain. Frank and exhilarating, sensual and profound, the poems stare, unblinking, at sex and death and love - showing these things to us in all their raw beauty.
This striking new collection is a sequence of poems that reaches into the very wellspring of life. The poems take us back to the womb, to childhood, to a searing sexual awakening, to the shock of birth, the wonder and humour of parenthood - and finally to the depths of adult love.
Always bold, musical and honest, The Wellspring plunges us into the essence of experience. This is a highly charged, sinuous, passionate book from one of the finest poets writing today.
Sentences roll on with breathless urgency, and the emotional pace of these unstoppered utterances is remarkably effective... Visceral in detail and unsparingly honest in its psychology, the volume offers a tenderness and integrity which allow even the more shockingly erotic or confessional moments to say something about innocence
—— GuardianSharon Olds' poems are pure fire in the hands - risky, on the verge of falling, and in the end leaping up. I love the toughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss
—— Michael OndaatjeHer best work exhibits a lyrical acuity which is both purifying and redemptive. She sees description as a means to catharsis, and the result is impossible to forget...her poetry is remarkable for its candour, its eroticism and its power to move
—— David LeavittThis, surely, is the sound the confessional hordes have been trying to utter since Lowell, the right road that is missed so easily
—— Glyn MaxwellThe poetry of Lampedusa's novel flows into the Sicilian countryside...a work of great artistry
—— Peter AckroydI was astounded by the power of the writing
—— Corin RedgraveA great book
—— ObserverFew novels in the last ten years have given me so much enjoyment
—— Sunday TimesA novel of exceptional stature. One may claim for it classic status
—— Frank KermodeA literary phenomenon on the grandest scale – a work of genius
—— Isabel QuiglySublime and sweet melancholy suffuses the story. Beautiful
—— Tim Waterstone , The WeekA delicate meditation on mortality, decay and the fading of beauty
—— Martin Sixsmith , The WeekHistorical fiction at its best
—— Orlando Figes , The WeekNo novel is perfect, but this small, wonderfully atmospheric and immensely poignant story...comes very close
—— Sunday Times, *Summer Reads of 2021*Blisteringly angry..,begins as a black comedy but gradually turns much darker with the mad-as-hell narrator suspected of murdering his lovers in London
—— Sunday TelegraphSutton shows us everything through Freeman's eyes and he pulls it off very well indeed. A horrible character but a compelling narrator
—— William Leith , Evening StandardSutton shows us everything through Freeman's eyes and he pulls it off very well indeed
—— William Leith , The ScotsmanThis darkly comic novel with it's brilliantly acute observations of life in London in the 21st Century completely captures the zeitgeist and raises more than a few laughs.
—— Carla McKay , Daily MailGripping and darkly comic tale of 21st-century material greed
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