{"title":"Lesley Saunders","description":"\u003cp\u003eLesley Saunders is a writer and research consultant, and the author of four poetry collections including \u003cem\u003eChristina the Astonishing\u003c\/em\u003e, with Jane Draycott and artist Peter Hay. She was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem and won joint first place in the Manchester Poetry Prize 2008. Her latest collection, \u003cem\u003eCloud Camera\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Two Rivers Press in 2012; David Morley said of it \"This precisely-realised, elegant and resonant new collection by Lesley Saunders recalls Leonardo da Vinci’s \u003cem\u003ePrinciples for the Development of a Complete Mind.\u003c\/em\u003e Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses – especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else.\" Lesley held a poetry residency at Acton Court, a house built for Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and her next residency will be in spring 2013 at Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWebsite: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lesleysaunders.org.uk\/\"\u003ewww.lesleysaunders.org.uk\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"point-of-honour","title":"Point of Honour","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoint of Honour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a landmark anthology of Portuguese poetry, the first of its kind in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis definitive, dual-language collection comprises translations of 80-plus poems by Maria Teresa Horta, one of the most revered writers of modern Portugal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt provides selections from each of her volumes of poetry published over a writing career that spans six decades. The book opens with a critical essay by Portuguese academic, Ana Raquel Fernandes, which – together with the English translations by poet Lesley Saunders – enable an anglophone readership to acquire a sense of the formal, emotional and intellectual power and significance of this poet’s work. The book underlines the importance of creating and sustaining literary connections between the UK and the continent of Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Two Rivers Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29244907225166,"sku":"9781909747470","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/point_of_honour.jpg?v=1752241264"},{"product_id":"this-thing-of-blood-amp-love","title":"This Thing of Blood \u0026amp; Love","description":" \u003cem\u003eThis Thing of Blood \u0026amp; Love\u003c\/em\u003e, Lesley Saunders’ fifth collection with Two Rivers Press, is an intense examination of human culpability, the secrets we half-keep from ourselves, the contradictory selves we inhabit, the histories that live on unreconciled in us, the planet whose imperfect stewards we are; and above all the unfathomable mystery of being (in) a body, incarnated, made flesh – a thing of blood and love that betrays us with its appalling vulnerabilities.  The poems in this book display the celebratory delight in language which has continued to impress readers and reviewers of Saunders’ work, though here imbued with a disturbed and disturbing awareness of mortality – the ultimate vulnerability from which in the end we derive our deepest sense of self. ","brand":"Two Rivers Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39584390676558,"sku":"9781909747968","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/files\/9781909747968.jpg?v=1752239986"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/lesley-saunders\/ana-raquel-fernandes.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}