Deborah Pope

Poems that give voice to a life deeply felt and fully realised. Deborah Pope’s poems give voice to a life deeply felt and fully realised, whose very personal visions yield universal claims. At the heart of this poetry’s fanaticism is the search for the ground of intimacy and the configurations of identity. It is a measure of Pope’s skill that...

A sharp and poignant poetic exploration of memory, aging, and the relationships that define our lives. The poems of Wild Liar emerge from a fundamental engagement with the nature of memory—its shifting constructions and needs, its equilibriums and disquiets. Refracted through language rich with Deborah Pope’s distinctive lyricism and acute eye for detail, the poems plumb the experience of the...