The Poets' Wives av David Park

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<b><u>From award-winning writer David Park, an absorbing account of the lives of the women most important to three poets: William Blake, Osip Mandlestam and an imagined contemporary Irish poet</u></b><b>''An outstanding novel, written in luminous accessible prose, thoroughly enjoyable and much deeper even than the sum of its excellent parts''</b><i>Irish Times</i><i><b>''The Poets¿ Wives</b></i><b> is a marvellous triptych: lyrical, respectful of creativity but also sharply sceptical''</b><i>Sunday Times</i><b>__________________</b>Three women, each destined to play the role of a poet¿s wife: Catherine Blake, the wife of William Blake ¿ a poet, painter and engraver who struggles for recognition in a society that dismisses him as a madman; Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, whose poetry costs him his life under Stalin¿s terror; and the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish poet, who looks back on her marriage during the days after her husband¿s death as she seek