ALL THE SELVES I WAS

by Michèle Roberts

Throughout her literary career, Michèle Roberts has written and published her poetry to acclaim. Her poems, rich in biblical and mythological allusion, examine her continuing preoccupations with love, death, food, and sex, working through metaphor to create a way of looking at the world that links the body-self to others, to nature, to life in the city. As she excavates from memory meanings that lie beneath the surface of ordinary life, she dissolves boundaries with sensuous and passionate clarity.

144 pages, Paperback

First published February 23, 1995

About the author

Michèle Brigitte Roberts is the author of fifteen novels, including Ignorance which was nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction and Daughters of the House which won the W.H. Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her memoir Paper Houses was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in June 2007. She has also published poetry and short stories, most recently collected in Mud: Stories of Sex and Love. Half-English and half-French, Roberts lives in London and in the Mayenne, France. She is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.