{"title":"Knute Skinner","description":"Knute Skinner lives in Killaspuglonane, County Clare, his home for the past thirty-eight years. His poetry has appeared widely in Ireland, Britain, Australia and North America. For some years he taught literature and creative writing part of each year at Western Washington University. He has worked as director of the Signpost Press and editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Bellingham Review\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as serving on the editorial board of New Series-Departures. He is the author of 13 collections of poetry, 6 of them with Salmon Poetry, and he has poems in numerous anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eIrish Poetry Now\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOr Volge L'Anno-At the Year's Turning: An Anthology of Irish Poets Responding to Leopardi\u003c\/em\u003e. He is married to Edna Faye Kiel, who is the subject of some of these poems. His most recent collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003eFifty Years: 1957-2007\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Salmon in 2007.\n\n","products":[{"product_id":"the-north-39","title":"The North 39","description":"In this issue there is an extended ‘Poets I Go Back To’ features, with contributions by Liz Cashdan, Chris Considine, Alan Brownjohn and Anthony Wilson. And the critics in ‘Blind Criticism’ this time are the editors themselves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Woodward writes of the influence William Cowper has had on her. Paul Mills assesses Jeremy Hooker, and Gerard Benson takes to the boards in Lilac Time, a further instalment of his unmissable autobiography. Jane Routh describes the joy of a poetry reading in the Shetlands. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs usual there are loads of good new poems, and reviews of recent books including Penelope Shuttle, Gael Turnbull and S J Litherland's engagement with McSweeney.","brand":"Smith\/Doorstop (The Poetry Business)","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040762896,"sku":"18636-0269-9885","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_6f14bf3f-da33-4fda-bf11-46f008a66cf6.jpeg?v=1752236638"},{"product_id":"stretches","title":"Stretches","description":"\u003ci\u003eStretches\u003c\/i\u003e, Knute Skinner's first full-length collection in six years, contains not only the depth but also the uncommon variety his readers have come to expect of him. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTender and witty love poems coexist with brief narratives and satirical sketches. Lyrical responses to nature interact with spiritual responses to the material world. These poems, diverse in subject and tone, represent the accomplishment of a life's dedication to a poet's art and craft. Skinner's language is accessible but crackles with apt surprise. The collection stretches, and it invites the reader to stretch with it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKnute Skinner\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Killaspuglonane, County Clare, his home for the past thirty-eight years. His poetry has appeared widely in Ireland, Britain, Australia and North America. For some years he taught literature and creative writing part of each year at Western Washington University. He has worked as director of the Signpost Press and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Bellingham Review\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as serving on the editorial board of New Series-Departures. He is the author of 13 collections of poetry, 6 of them with Salmon Poetry, and he has poems in numerous anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eIrish Poetry Now\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOr Volge L'Anno-At the Year's Turning: An Anthology of Irish Poets Responding to Leopardi\u003c\/i\u003e. He is married to Edna Faye Kiel, who is the subject of some of these poems. His most recent collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eFifty Years: 1957-2007\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Salmon in 2007.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Salmon Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041055340,"sku":"9781903392232","price":7.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_64929883-06ec-4ad0-b06a-ecb85d464abe.jpeg?v=1752236837"},{"product_id":"concerned-attentions","title":"Concerned Attentions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConcerned Attentions\u003c\/em\u003e is Knute Skinner’s first book of poetry since his collected edition,\u003cem\u003e Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007\u003c\/em\u003e, appeared from Salmon. As his readers may expect, the new work exhibits his artful and often moving, unnerving, or humourous turns of phrase. Moreover, it displays the poet’s continuing fascination with the tenuous relationship between the quotidian and the otherworldly.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKnute Skinner \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in St. Louis, Missouri, but for fifty years has had a home in County Clare, where he now lives with his spouse Edna Faye Kiel. His collected edition\u003cem\u003e Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007\u003c\/em\u003e, from Salmon, contained new work along with work taken from thirteen previous books. His collection \u003cem\u003eThe Other Shoe\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2004-2005 Pavement Saw Chapbook Award. A limited edition of his poems, translated into Italian by Roberto Nassi, was published by Damocle Edizioni, Chioggia, Italy, in 2011. A memoir, \u003cem\u003eHelp Me to a Getaway\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Salmon in March 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salmon Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041314464,"sku":"9781908836601","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/salmon_poetry_-_concerned_attentions.jpeg?v=1752237764"},{"product_id":"upside-down-world","title":"An Upside Down World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In the early 1990s, in his volume The Bears And Other Poems,\u003cbr\u003e Knute Skinner embarked on an extraordinary poetic project ? the \u003cbr\u003e elaboration of short poetic fictions. In the intervening years he has \u003cbr\u003e become a master of this charged and compelling form. These short poems \u003cbr\u003e are exquisitely compressed narratives delineating and exposing lives \u003cbr\u003e often within a relational context. The narrators are a diverse bunch: \u003cbr\u003e adulterers, deviants, adventurers, lovers, friends, whose utterances and\u003cbr\u003e scraps of dialogue frame the foibles, truths, frailties and enduring \u003cbr\u003e alliances between characters strewn across a variety of contexts. In \u003cbr\u003e some of the poems there is an undisclosed but implied secret that \u003cbr\u003e entreats the reader to return, to name what has been conflated and \u003cbr\u003e intuitively sussed, and to define the intriguingly elusive and alluring \u003cbr\u003e truth of the poem. There are very few books of poetry that you would run\u003cbr\u003e back into a burning building to retrieve. 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