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Thistles of the Hesperides

Title: Thistles of the Hesperides / Caroline Smith.
Author: Smith, Caroline, 1958-
Publication: Hexham : Flambard, 2000.

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Description

64 pages; 22 cm

Subject

Urban poor > Scotland > Edinburgh > Poetry
Public housing > Scotland > Edinburgh > Poetry
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Écosse > Édimbourg > Poésie
Logement social > Écosse > Édimbourg > Poésie
Public housing
Urban poor
West Pilton (Edinburgh, Scotland) > Poetry
Scotland > Edinburgh

Genre/Form

poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.

Contents

"The long title sequence of this debut collection is about West Pilton in Scotland where Caroline Smith lived when it was one of the most deprived housing estates in Europe. Yet rather than employing a naturalistic approach, she uses Greek myths to give poems forming the sequence an overall structure, weaving together strands of individual stories with an account of contemporary political idealism and naivety. As in Joyce's Ulysses, reality and mythology collide so that the everyday and the mundane are seen in an unexpected and transfiguring way. It is by exploiting mythic exaggeration that Caroline Smith is able to capture the sheer extremity of life on West Pilton". -- BOOK JACKET.

ISBN

187322639X
9781873226391

OCLC

ocm44851234
44851234
SCSB-1205708

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library