First published in 1980, Sibyls and Others is now reissued in an updated edition with a new preface by the poet as part of the Poetry Book Society's Back in Print series. Praised by the New Statesman as "One of the best contemporary women poets in this country" Ruth Fainlight has also been described by John Bayley in the London Review of Books as: "In a tradition various enough to include Emily Dickinson, Mary Coleridge, Christina Rossetti and Charlotte Mew, her poetry gets on with itself, not self-absorbed but quite ...
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First published in 1980, Sibyls and Others is now reissued in an updated edition with a new preface by the poet as part of the Poetry Book Society's Back in Print series. Praised by the New Statesman as "One of the best contemporary women poets in this country" Ruth Fainlight has also been described by John Bayley in the London Review of Books as: "In a tradition various enough to include Emily Dickinson, Mary Coleridge, Christina Rossetti and Charlotte Mew, her poetry gets on with itself, not self-absorbed but quite independent". Ruth Fainlight's poetry has grown more distinctive over the years, and she has often used the figure of the sibyl as an incarnation of female wisdom. Her fifteen books of poetry range from Cages (1966) to Moon Wheels (2006), and include The Region's Violence (1973), Sibyls and Others (1980), The Knot (1990), Selected Poems (1995) and Sugar-Paper Blue (1997), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award. Ruth Fainlight has also published two collections of short stories, many translations and three librettos. She lives in London and is married to the writer Alan Sillitoe.
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Add this copy of Sibyls and Others to cart. $30.36, very good condition, Sold by Halcyon Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1980 by Hutchinson.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Two tiny spots on boards and one on the front fly, near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the author to poet Dan Hoffman.
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Very Good in Very Good, Not Price Clipped jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Signed by Ruth Fainlight on the title page with no inscription; also inscribed and dated London, May, 1980 by Ruth Fainlight on front end paper: "to Miriam [Waddington] with love from Ruth"; identity of Canadian poet established by evidence from provenance; bumping to boards especially on front cover at top of spine; dust jacket is creased and worn along top edge including two closed tears; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectible condition; dust jacket is now protected by a Brodart sleeve.
