- Published: 30 September 2014
- ISBN: 9781473521513
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 160
Selected Poems
- Published: 30 September 2014
- ISBN: 9781473521513
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 160
Sharon Olds' poems are pure fire in the hands - risky, on the verge of falling, and in the end leaping up. I love the toughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion of her work
Michael Ondaatje
The attention to line, the superbly focused detail, the way her autobiographical detail strikes, shines, deepens, spreads: this, surely is the sound the confessional hordes have been trying to utter since Lowell, the right road that is missed so easily
Glyn Maxwell
Sharon Olds explores her own experience with an intransigent honesty and fiery dignity. The reader might flinch at the intimacy, but Olds strikes straight out for the truth
Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times
If any reading is 'essential', this is it
Carol Rumens
Olds remains too little-known in the UK...readers new to her will be astounded
Kate Clanchy, Independent
Her best work exhibits a lyrical acuity which is both purifying and redemptive. She sees description as a means to catharsis, and the end result is impossible to forget... Her poetry is remarkable for its candour, its eroticism, and its power to move
David Leavitt