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. Annemarie Austin's vividly imaginative poems explore other worlds and other lives, drawing upon her own memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and literature. . Shall We Go? is her eighth book of poetry, following her Bloodaxe retrospective, Very: New & Selected Poems (2008) and later collection Track (2014).

Annemarie Austin's sixth book of poetry from Bloodaxe.

Annemarie Austin was born in Devon and grew up on the Somerset Levels and in Weston-super-Mare, where she has lived for most of her life. She won the Cheltenham Literature Festival Poetry Competition in 1980, and her first collection, The Weather Coming (1987) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. This book includes work from all her collections.

These richly imaginative, unsettling poems cluster around the figure of Marsyas, from Titian's great late painting of 'the satyr who did what the poet has to do/ and challenged heaven with his flight of song'. Losing to the god Apollo in a music competition, Marsyas is flayed alive. But for Annemarie Austin, Marsyas is an exemplary figure whose horrible death in myth turns into a transformation. He gradually frees himself from the rich backgro...

Back from the Moon begins with poems of place and transition--a tunnel, an empty beach, an overgrown quarry--inhabited by half-seen foxes, zoo animals undressing, an infestation of swans, Byron's lover Claire Clairmont. Mata Hari, and by unreal princesses and angels dancing on the head of a pin. But then it is cleft by the shock and tragedy of a father's illness, and finishes with a double sequence that speaks first of dementia seen from the o...