- Published: 15 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407072616
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 64
Dammtor
- Published: 15 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407072616
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 64
Scattering Eva is an ambitious and exhilarating collection. James Sheard can manage both scale and intimacy, governed by a fine ear, in language both rich and chaste. Combining love, politics, history and belief, Scattering Eva quickly takes up residence in the reader's imagination. Sheard is also something of a rarity - a manifestly European poet working in English. Not to be missed
Sean O’Brien
His language has the acid precision of a drypoint, perfectly servicing the difficult ambition of its subject-matter with images that made me catch my breath
Adam Thorpe
James Sheard at his best is a strong, and already much-praised poet... He has a powerful, almost mythic sense of political struggle
Alison Brackenbury
These poems burn with life and feeling. James Sheard is an eloquent writer whose linguistic verve is offset by short, spare lines and a sombre musicality
Helen Dunmore