Three Poems (Faber Poetry)

Review Three Poems . . . travels light, illuminated yet never shackled by scholarship, and investigates the way life does - and does not - revise itself. She writes freshly about everything -- Kate Kellaway ― Observer 'An unfettered delight . . . one of the most aesthetically pleasing things I have read in a long time.' -- Roger Cox ― Scotsman 'An extraordinary book, and Sullivan can - it seems - do just about anything.' -- Declan Ryan ― Poetry Review 'The best first collection I've read for a long time: moving, technically adroit, clever in all the right ways, and full of brilliant small-scale effects as well as large achievements.' -- Andrew Motion ― Guardian Summer Reads 'An intriguing collection, brutal in its intensity and compelling in its search for beauty.' -- Tom Williams ― Literary Review '[A] majestic debut ... Sullivan's authority, reach and ambition are exhilarating.' -- Lavinia Greenlaw ― London Review of Books Three Poems is a richly rewarding collection that shows all the confidence and skill of a poet writing in their prime: it is hard to believe this is a first book. -- Paul Batchelor ― New Statesman 'Hannah Sullivan is a welcome, brilliantly confident new voice in British poetry. Three Poems, a sophisticated, intimate first collection, redefines modernism today. Its three poems shape-shift through sex, birth, death, terza rima, blank verse and rhymed couplets.' -- Ruth Padel ― New Statesman, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Hannah Sullivan's Three Poems is a collection of three long poems about youth, time, and the only end of age. It is funny, affecting, smart, readable and wears its influences from Didion to Eliot lightly.' -- John Self ― Irish Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'In her debut collection, Hannah Sullivan joins the long-form tradition with confidence, ambition and style.' -- Julie Morrissy ― Poetry Ireland Review Sullivan's poetry constructed its own detailed, lucid, and deeply honest world, one which the audience were able - and felt impelled - to enter, and recognize themselves within. -- Ralf Webb ― LA Review of Books Product Description WINNER OF THE 2018 T S ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY Hannah Sullivan's debut collection is a revelation - three long poems of fresh ambition, intensity and substance. Though each poem stands apart, their inventive and looping encounters make for a compelling unity. 'You, Very Young in New York' captures a great American city, in all its alluring detail. It is a wry and tender study of romantic possibility, disappointment, and the obduracy of innocence. 'Repeat until Time' begins with a move to California and unfolds into an essay on repetition and returning home, at once personal and philosophical. 'The Sandpit after Rain' explores the birth of a child and the loss of a father with exacting clarity. In Three Poems, readers will experience Sullivan's work with the same exhilaration as they might the great modernising poems of Eliot and Pound, but with the unique perspective of a brilliant new female voice. Book Description Ambitious debut from bold, new female voice, re-visioning the tradition of Eliot and Pound About the Author Hannah Sullivan lives in London with her husband and two sons and is an Associate Professor of English at New College, Oxford. She received her PhD from Harvard in 2008 and taught in California for four years. Her study of modernist writing, The Work of Revision, was published in 2013 and awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy.