Hôtel Amour
by Deryn Rees-Jones
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A sequel to her T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted collection Erato, Deryn Rees-Jones’ remarkable new book-length poem, Hôtel Amour experiments with fragmented narrative and poetic form, creating a breathing space for a multilayered and powerful meditation on illness, love and time. Hôtel Amour’s fierce and formidable exploration of ‘the now’ and its many ghostly literary pasts, is the work of a poet at the height of her powers as she asks us to listen, and explore our human capacity for transformation and for hope.
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“This is a glorious, heartbreaking collection. To enter the corridors of Deryn Rees-Jones’s Hôtel Amour is to surrender to a kind of lyric transience, where time exists all at once. The body takes centre stage, remembering a life in fragments, observing a world in decline, trying to catch up with its own self. Vivid and dreamlike, these poems burn with the small and large fires of love.” – Tishani Doshi
“To read Hôtel Amour is to enter a fluid sensory dream, a vision of one ‘small life’ seen entirely through the lens of poetry, where nothing is ordinary or meaningless... This is simply extraordinary writing, laced with wonder and devastation...” – Joanna Klink
Author Biography
Deryn Rees-Jones was born in Liverpool, and educated in North Wales and London. She is the author of 7 collections of poetry including The Memory Tray (1995) which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She has twice been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize with her collections Burying the Wren (2012) and Erato (2019) which were also Poetry Book Society Recommendations. She edited the influential anthology Modern Women Poets for Bloodaxe. She has received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors and was picked as one of the top ten women poets of the decade in Mslexia magazine. She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool where she co-directs the Centre for New and International Writing, and edits the Pavilion Poetry Series for Liverpool University Press.
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Copyright © Deryn Rees-Jones, 2025
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- Publisher Seren Books
- Publication Date July 2025
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781781727843
- Publication Country or regionWales
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 12.99 GBP
- Pages112
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2028
- Dimensions216 x 138 mm
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