Notebook

by Sasha Dugdale

Drawing upon her experiences as a worker in Russia and the worldly attitudes of artist J. M. W. Turner for inspiration, Sasha Dugdale links the poems in this collection through her belief in the creative power of artist and writer to not only record but also to transform reality. She writes of Russian lives with a knowledgeable insight, finding beauty and humanity in what at first appears bleak and desperate; of relationships; and of questions of identity. She is the observer, a woman standing alone as a crowd surges around her.

64 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2004

About the author

Sasha Dugdale is a poet and translator. She has published five collections of poetry with Carcanet (UK), the most recent, Deformations, is shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She is a translator of Russian drama and poetry, including work by Elena Shvarts, Maria Stepanova and Marina Tsvetaeva, and former editor of the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.