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‘Trust me, Jasmine Donahaye is an important new voice in literature in Wales and beyond.’ John Jones, Western Mail
ISBN: 1902638956
About the BookSexually frank and politically charged, this debut collection of poetry ranges from the Israel/Palestine conflict and the experience of immigration, emigration and displacement, to the dark aspects of childhood, motherhood and sexuality, explored against urban and rural landscapes of Israel, Wales, England and California. About the Author
Jasmine Donahaye was born in England and emigrated to California, where she lived for twelve years before settling in mid-Wales. She gained a BA at UC Berkeley, where she was taught by Thom Gunn and by two-time US Poet Laureate Robert Hass, and a PhD in Welsh Writing in English from the University of Wales, Swansea. Jasmine is a critic, poet and editor and has published widely in the UK and the US on Welsh writing in English, Jewish literature and Welsh Jewish culture. Her work has appeared in New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, Planet and Calyx, and critical essays appear in a number of scholarly collections. Her poetry won an Ina Coolbrith Memorial Prize in 1999 and the Joan Lee Yang Memorial Prize in 2000. ‘Faith’, a poem from Misappropriations, has been published in the Forward Book of Poetry 2007 and she has been short-listed for the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2006.
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