Jo Shapcott

Jo Shapcott är en av den brittiska samtidspoesins verkligt stora. Nu introduceras hon på svenska med diktsamlingen Pissblomma i översättning och urval av Aris Fioretos. Shapcott dras i sina dikter ständigt mot ett tillstånd av upplösning där perspektiven förskjuts och gränserna mellan jaget och omvärlden korsas. Förändringen är konstant såväl naturens och kroppens som relationernas. Oavsett om det diktjaget för ett ögonblick tar rollen som ko eller bi. Med precision rör sig Shapcotts språkledigt, lätt och underfundigt.

Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation. In Of Mutability, Shapcott is found writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people - these poems look freshly but squarely at mortality. By turns grave and playful, arresting and witty, the poems in Of Mutability celebrate each waking moment as though it might be the last, and in so doing restore wonder to the smallest of encounters. This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.

Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation. In Of Mutability, Shapcott is found writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people - these poems look freshly but squarely at mortality. By turns grave and playful, arresting and witty, the poems in Of Mutability celebrate each waking moment as though it might be the last, and in so doing restore wonder to the to the smallest of encounters.

Poems 1988-1998 is a compendium from Jo Shapcott's award-winning books Electroplating the Baby, Phrase Book and My Life Asleep. It reveals her to be a writer of ingenious, politically acute and provocative imagination and justifies her reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation.

Towards the end of his life the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote nearly 400 poems in French. The emergence of a French Rilke provides the starting point, rather than a terminus, for Jo Shapcott's new collection.