Lost Notebook

Feldman Jennie

These visually arresting and subtly musical poems range from Scotland and the Hebrides to Paris, the Mediterranean and Israel, capturing resonant details and moments and shaping them into a quizzical coherence. Like the small ghost that circles into lamplight in "Moth", the poems are on the wing, "sourcing the radiance of things" in response to the dark. A lost notebook inspires a sequence that interweaves themes of sea, music, memory, love and the charge of language. This is a distinguished first collection.

About the Author

Jennie Feldman was born in South Africa, grew up in London and studied French at Oxford. A former award-winning radio producer and presenter, she is married with two children and lives in Jerusalem and Oxford. Her first collection of poems, "The Lost Notebook", was published in 2005, as was her selection and translation from Jacques Reda's poems, "Treading Lightly". Her anthology of seven modern French poets, "Into the Deep Street", edited and translated with Stephen Romer, appeared in 2009. Her second collection "Swift" appeared in 2012.

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