Oxford Poets S.
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Jo Shapcott's award-winning first book, Electroplating the Baby , established her as an important member of the younger generation of poets. In this new book, she calls on a host of different voices to offer their witty and sharply ironic views on the modern world. This book is intended for readers of poetry, particularly the younger generation of poetry-readers. Undergraduates, sixth-formers.
My Life Asleep is a vigorous collection of poems, lively and never succumbing to gloom, despite their black humour and sometimes macabre tone. This is Jo Shapcott's third collection. She is the joint anthologist with Matthew Sweeney of Emergency Kit for Faber, and her work is appearing in a volume of Penguin Modern Poets. She lives in London, and is kept busy on the reading circuit. This book is intended for poetry readers, students.