Selected Poems by Olds, Sharon fiction

Selected Poems by Olds, Sharon fictionAuthor: Olds, Sharon Poetry by individual poets Published on 6 October 2005 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape Ltd) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 160 pages 197 x 127 x 14 170g Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the hands' and cheered the 'roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss'. This rich selection made by the author exhibits

We're Going on a Bear Hunt

isn't it time to change that

two teenage girls must each make a choice: to act upon their desires or suppress them

finding a joyous positivity that does not ignore the darkness

although born in India

A dazzling work of farce

' ELIZABETH DAY'Will change the history of art

The Stranger’s Bed (1998)

this book will both entertain and inform any cat-lover’ John Bradshaw

and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history

practising being a stepmother

But a mysterious visitor soon reveals that Marjan’s father was no ordinary vet