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Book SynopsisFollowing her prize-winning first collection, Martha Kapos again captures an extraordinary range of perceptions and emotion. Her style is highly original, a sort of internal Cubism, conveying a feeling-state by observing it precisely through many sharply nuanced images and from many angles. She creates a very distinctive, unique atmosphere - graver here than in her previous collection. "Supreme Being" is both a huge hymn of praise for 'life', for ordinary experiencing, and at the same time faces very movingly and directly the incomprehensibility of loss - the loss of someone else, deeply known and loved, and the awareness, too, of the coming loss of the poet's own 'experiencing': themes as grave and profound as can be imagined. These are the substance of religious feeling and - without overt religious referencing - "Supreme Being" earns its bold title.
Trade ReviewFrom Reviews of My Nights in Cupid's Palace:Almost every poem here makes another myth, a new cosmologyA...exerts an unsettling, enlivening, revelatory effect. Her poems seek revelation, they are the act of seeking it; they are, as Lowell said poems should be - the event, not the record of an event. - David ConstantineHere is a richly imaginative new voiceA...An intuitive and lyric sensibility is allied with unusual powers of visualisation and composition to make this a distinctive and assured debut collection. - Poetry Book Society BulletinThe best debut of the year: a true collection of poems rather than just an assortment of ones she made earlier, and each of them is perfect. - Books of the Year: The Independent on Sunday
