Her third pamphlet, The Hallucinogenic Effects of Breathing is from the same press, published in May 2003. On Sketty Sands, based on her maternal family history, was published by Arrowhead Press in 2001. Her first pamphlet, Running with the Unicorns, was published by The Bay Press in 1994. She has had several competition successes, the most recent being First Prize in the Poetry London competition. Joanna Boulter grew up in Wiltshire and moved to Darlington with her family in 1989. Would seem to him no more than a betrayer.Īnd yet: Our job is to rejoice. “Joanna Boulter’s long sequence raises many interesting questions about the relationship between an artist’s life experience and his work, between individual creativity and the seat of political power, and between one art and another.” - Meg Peacocke "Joanna Boulter’s superb new book, a novella in an impressive variety of verse forms, translates the composer’s life and fears into a musical language which, in all its respects, brings illumination to Shostakovich’s gifts for honesty and truth under pressure.” - David Morley Yet his instrumental music was still a critique, even if it did not take the form of words. “I want to be an honest man in all respects", Shostakovich said to Solomon Volkov, "but now the person who knows the truth is the one who lives in fear". Shortlisted for the Best First Collection in the Forward Poetry Prize 2007
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