Charlotte Mew

In the old back streets o’ Pimlico On the docks at Monte Video At the Ring o’ Bells on Plymouth Hoe He’m arter me now wheerever I go… Charlotte Mew, a Modernist poet who in her day was considered one of the finest of the age by writers of great stature, has lived for long in the shadows of the literary canon. An avant-garde Bloomsbury poet that never quite broke through into the public’s consciousness, Mew’s experimental style, with prose-like lines, has stood the test of time, and is as relevant and powerful today as when it was written. Published in 1929, a year after her tragic death, The Rambling Sailor collects Mew’s final, most powerful verse, in which love, nature and religion all intermingle to paint pictures of pain, hope and a deep love of the natural world through the writer’s knowledgeable eyes.

The British poet Charlotte Mew - whose 150th anniversary falls in 2019 - was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers. She has since been neglected, but her star is beginning to rise again. This Selected Poetry and Prose is edited by Faber poet Julia Copus, who recently unveiled a blue plaque on Mew's childhood house in Doughty Street and is writing her biography. Mew was a curious mix of New Woman and stalwart Victorian. Her poems speak to us strongly today, in these strangely mixed times of exposure and seclusion: they reveal the private agony of an isolated being who was forced to keep secret the tragedies of her personal life while being at the same time propelled by her work into the public arena. Her poetry transfigures that very private suffering into art that has a universal resonance.

Miehet ja puut on kokoelma Charlotte Mew'n esseitä ja lyhyttä proosaa. Runoilijana tunnettu Mew kuvaa tarkasti oman aikakautensa Lontoota ja eri yhteiskuntaluokkiin kuuluvia ihmisiä. Kirjan nimikkoteksti on vahva ekologinen kannanotto puiden ja metsien puolesta, modernin yhteiskunnan tuottamaa tuhoa vastaan. Lisäksi Mew selvittää myös puiden merkitystä uskonnossa, kansanperinteessä, mytologiassa ja kirjallisuudessa

Charlotte Mew (1869 - 1928) oli merkittävä varhainen modernisti ja feministi. Mew käsitteli runoissaan usein naisten oikeuksia, seksuaalisuutta, mielenterveyttä ja ekologisia teemoja. Hatullinen sanoja on ensimmäinen suomennettu valikoima Mew'n tuotannosta.

Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) is increasingly left out od collectoins of modernist poets, and yet her feminist themes might bring new dimensions to the history of modernism. This volume collects all her known poetry and also includes examples in other genres she tried.