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    Art of Escape

    By Mina Gorji

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    A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (January 2020). Among Mina Gorji's poems in New Poetries V (2011) was one about Houdini entitled 'The Art of Escape' which returns here as the title poem. This colourful and vivid first collection continues the course of Mina Gorji's meticulous explorations of 'the strange and sometimes darker side of nature' and the different forms and meanings of escape: dandelions crossing the ocean, the journey of a gall wasp from Aleppo to England, the transformation of an armadillo into music. These poems shift by degrees until new patterns and sounds emerge, transforming the familiar into unexpected configurations. Art of Escape is a wonderful casting off into the complex waters of adult life, in which change has become the constant.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateDec 21, 2020
    ISBN9781784108854
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    Art of Escape
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    Mina Gorji

    Mina Gorji was born in Iran and lives in Cambridge. Her debut, Art of Escape (Carcanet, 2020), was a Telegraph 'Book of the Month'. Her poems were selected for the Forward Book of Poetry and Bloodaxe's Staying Human anthology. She has also written a study of John Clare's poetry, and essays on weeds, rudeness, little things and listening; a lyric-critical essay, 'Listening for Stars', was published in Poetry Review (2021). She is Associate Professor at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Pembroke College.

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