Of Mutability

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Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation.

In Of Mutability, Shapcott is found writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and in the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people - these poems look freshly but squarely at mortality. By turns grave and playful, arresting and witty.

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Jo Shapcott was born in London. She has won a number of literary prizes, including the Costa Book of the Year Award (2011), the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Collection, the National Poetry Competition (twice) and the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Tender Taxes, her versions of Rilke was published to great acclaim in 2001.