Background
Sheenagh Pugh was born in Birmingham.
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Renowned for her use of traditional meter, clarity of style, and originality of subject matter, this is the most complete collection of Pugh’s poems to date. Including works from the past 25 years and organized chronologically, this volume features poems that are reflective, subtly persuasive, and in which themes are often subverted, truisms reversed, and clichés overthrownrevealing a skilled yet unobtrusive poetic voice at the height of her career.
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Fandoms as diverse as Jane Austen, Blake's 7, and The Bill are explored in this guide to the cultural phenomenon of fan fiction. Examining how anonymous authors bring their own gloss and invention to their favorite novels, films, and TV series; develop characters; expand narratives; and, in the slash genre, explore homosexual relationships between otherwise heterosexual characters, this analysis covers fanfic terminology, its mechanisms for participation and support, the differences between fan fiction and conventional publishing, and the genre's literary merits.
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A strange assortment of characters inhabit these poems, including George Mackay Brown, Johnny Cash, William Dampier, a lion-keeper in wartime Afganistan, and a shipload of sailors in a Shetland churchyard. The long central work of the collection provides an elegiac meditation on the life and death of a young soldier who succumbed to hypothermia during the Napoleonic Wars. Finally, and quite unexpectedly, the poem "Googlisms" provides an outpouring of quirky definitions from a website that collects information from the search engine Google.
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Exploring the theme of traveling in depth, this new collection of poems has a pervasive, elegiac quality, which demonstrates the many different types of journeys—both real and imagined—that one must face in life. These incisive narratives work more by implication than explication with shorter lines; brief poignant descriptions; and minimalist dialogue.
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Sheenagh Pugh was born in Birmingham.
She studied languages at the University of Bristol.
She now lives in Shetland but lived for many years in Cardiff and taught creative writing at the University of Glamorgan until retiring in 2008. Her collection of poetry The Beautiful Lie (Seren, 2002) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the collection The Movement of Bodies (Seren, 2005) was selected as a Poetry Book Society recommendation and also shortlisted for the T South Eliot Prize. Pugh"s interest in northern landscapes is well-known and a strong feature of her work.
One of her novels, Kirstie"s Witnesses, is set in Shetland and several poems in Long-Haul Travellers are set in Norway.
Her poem "Sometimes" (Selected Poems, 1990) appeared in Poems on the Underground and is among her best-known works, though Pugh herself states on her website that she "long ago got sick of it" and no longer allows it to be anthologised or used in examination questions. Politically correct versions of this poem using inclusive language have been published, ruining the scansion and raising Pugh"s ire.
Pugh has also published a study of fan fiction, The Democratic Genre: fan fiction in a literary context (Seren, 2005), which is one of the first publications to treat fan fiction as a literary rather than a sociological phenomenon. Fandom is also the subject of her "Fanfic" sequence, in the collection The Beautiful Lie, which includes a poem about Mary Sues.
Pugh"s collection Long-Haul Travellers was published by Seren in Autumn 2008.
lieutenant features several poems set in Norway and a sequence about the Dutch privateer turned Barbary pirate Murat Reis. Long-Haul Travellers was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Prize and longlisted for the Wales Book of the Year prize.
( Exploring the theme of traveling in depth, this new col...)
( A strange assortment of characters inhabit these poems,...)
(A mixture of verse and translations of Medieval and Renai...)
( Renowned for her use of traditional meter, clarity of s...)
( Fandoms as diverse as Jane Austen, Blake's 7, and The B...)