The Guardian article on Marabou being shortlisted for the 2005 Forward Prize for best first collection:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1530616,00.html
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Poem from Marabou featured as the Saturday poem in The Guardian:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/poetry/story/0,6000,1597942,00.html
Poem from Marabou featured as the Sunday poem in The Independent on Sunday:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20051030/ai_n15816767
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BACK COVER TEXT:
When one glove in a pair is turned inside-out
It becomes the same as the other one, but with the seams exposed.
Nobody wants to see that.
(from ‘The Pre-Raphaelites’)
Reading Marabou is like browsing through an album of snapshots,
coming across fraught, frozen moments in the lives of intriguingly
enigmatic characters. There’s an Egyptian mummy, an Elizabethan
shoemaker and a flock of Cumbrian sheep; Oscar Wilde, a talking owl
and a pair of Renaissance princesses. In this collection, Yeh
illuminates the concept of personal identity with startling originality
and freshness. Borrowing from the languages of fashion, espionage
and revenge tragedy, her taut, pressure-packed lines combine vivid
imagery and bold confession to reveal profound emotional truths.
These beautifully crafted poems explore love, lust, glamour and
desperation with dazzling wit and flair. Marabou is a deeply moving
meditation on the nature of artifice, and of the self.
Cover painting Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez, Portrait of the
Infanta Maria Teresa (1638-83), the future Queen Marie-Thérèse of
France. Paris, Musée du Louvre. Photo RMN / © Daniel Arnaudet
Cover design Stephen Raw
ISBN 978 1 85754 788 7