BOOK
Public Dream read poems
Picador, 2007; £8.99; 64pp
'Frances Leviston has already received considerable praise for her deft and pitch-perfect verse. In the balancing of its lyric and metaphysical concerns, in the penetration and originality of its thought, Public Dream shows her to possess the intellectual seriousness to match her skill. Leviston is repeatedly drawn to ideas of the waking world, and the world as it is imagined or dreamt - and to the places where those two realms touch, collide or fuse. Throughout, a cinematic and exact eye transforms whatever falls under its gaze, and each poem firmly announces a singular and essential new voice.'
Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, the Jerwood-Aldeburgh Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
'Superb...technical mastery and fresh, unrehearsed sensibility is what makes this collection so exciting.'
~ Paul Batchelor in The Times - read
'She has the enviable knack of making the dense and complex seem effortless...language as refreshing as sorbet.'
~ Sarah Crown in The Guardian - read
'Public Dream is a first book of real interest... These powerful poems are not in praise of hiding, but suspicious of the wish to be seen.'
~ Adam Phillips in the Observer - read
'A first book of remarkable talent, imaginative vigour and realised achievement.'
~ Matthew Sperling in The Oxonian Review of Books - read
'This is an original and compelling first collection.'
~ Jane Griffiths in Tower Poetry - read
PAMPHLET
Lighter read poem
Mews Press, 2004; sold out; 20pp
'Unlike many young poets, Leviston exhibits no formal timidity. She has no default model. Her range is as wide as her subject matter, her forms both tactful and capable of sustained expansiveness. She offers an exhilarating fusion of insistent exactitude, sensuousness and dramatic momentum, which marks her out as a poet rich in potential and one who should be read here and now, at the moment of her emergence.' (Sean O'Brien)
Selected as the PBS Pamphlet Choice for Spring 2005.
'This little red Zippo of a pamphlet steams with book-sized creativity.'
~ Mario Petrucci in the PBS Bulletin - read
ANTHOLOGIES
Ten Hallam Poets
Mews Press, 2005; £7.99; 98pp
'Ten Hallam Poets introduces some of the best work by recent and current students on the Sheffield Hallam University MA and PhD writing programmes. Writing at Hallam is one of the best-established and most successful courses in Britain, and this anthology reflects Hallam's impressive record in finding and encouraging new talent.'
'...one of the most astonishing constellations of poetic talent to have emerged in the last ten years...'
~ Don Paterson
Tower Poets read poem
Tower Poetry, 2005; £5.00; 69pp
'With the publication of this first collection, Tower Poetry presents the work of seven young writers of real promise and achievements. Some have been winners of the annual Christopher Tower poetry competitions; others have taken part in the Tower Poetry Summer School; still others have been participants in the regular Tower classes on writing poetry given in the University of Oxford.
'New talent is always surprising rather than familiar. All the poets here are different – different from one another, and different from the usual pattern of "promise" in the world of contemporary British poetry. The Tower Poets in this exciting and distinctive collection are Caroline Bird, Olivia Cole, Frances Leviston, Anna Lewis, Helen Mort, Tim Smith-Laing, and Matthew Sperling.'
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