Finding a Leg to Stand on: New & Selected Poems by Bensley, Connie

Finding a Leg to Stand on: New & Selected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781852249564)

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Finding a Leg to Stand on: New & Selected Poems by Bensley, Connie

Finding a Leg to Stand on: New & Selected Poems

$19.95
Finding a Leg to Stand on: New & Selected Poems by Bensley, Connie

Finding a Leg to Stand on: New & Selected Poems

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Connie Bensley's poems are sharply satirical, often poking fun at social pretence and suburban pretension. They present a comedy of manners in which mismatched characters are bounced between love, death and disappointment. Hers is a seemingly small world but one which spans a whole universe of everyday life. Finding a Leg to Stand On is a retrospective selection of her delightfully pointed poems drawn from six collections published over three decades, plus new work.

Author: Connie Bensley
ISBN-10: 1852249560
ISBN-13: 9781852249564
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Language: English
Published: 11/22/2012
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.60d
By Connie Bensley
By Connie Bensley
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Connie Bensley was born in south-west London in 1929, and has always lived there, apart from wartime evacuation. Until her retirement she worked as a secretary to doctors and to an M.P. and as a medical copywriter. Her latest book from Bloodaxe is Having a Leg to Stand On: New & Selected Poems (2012), which presents new work with poems drawn from six previous collections: Progress Report and Moving In, originally published by Peterloo Poets, and four later books published Bloodaxe: Central Reservations (1990), Choosing To Be a Swan (1994), The Back & the Front of It (2000) and Private Pleasures (2007). Her poems are frequently anthologised and read on BBC radio.

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