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A Poetry Book Society Recommendation
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection
Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry


''Fizzing with insistent energy . . . full of crystalline images and metaphors . . . Frears is excellent on sexual politics, the end of girlhood'' Guardian


Ella Frears''s debut is a collection of wry, vivid poems whose power lies in their intimacy. They are as insistent as they are circumspect, drawing close to the reader''s ear and bringing them into confidence. The engine of Shine, Darling is one of strength, of fortitude in confronting and surviving the world, of a lifted-chin audacity - ''There was pain,'' the speaker allows, ''but it was not new pain.''


Frears''s work is world-weathered rather than world-weary, delighted by service stations, fucking on bins in Cornwall, in constant communion with the moon. It lives for the power-play of people, of the pull

Shine Darling

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      Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
      Published 1 January 2025
      ISBN-13 9781472159632
      978-1472159632
      ISBN-10 1472159632
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      Fiction Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A Poetry Book Society Recommendation
      Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection
      Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry


      ''Fizzing with insistent energy . . . full of crystalline images and metaphors . . . Frears is excellent on sexual politics, the end of girlhood'' Guardian


      Ella Frears''s debut is a collection of wry, vivid poems whose power lies in their intimacy. They are as insistent as they are circumspect, drawing close to the reader''s ear and bringing them into confidence. The engine of Shine, Darling is one of strength, of fortitude in confronting and surviving the world, of a lifted-chin audacity - ''There was pain,'' the speaker allows, ''but it was not new pain.''


      Frears''s work is world-weathered rather than world-weary, delighted by service stations, fucking on bins in Cornwall, in constant communion with the moon. It lives for the power-play of people, of the pull

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