The Artist's Room

Résumé du livre

A poet and painter based in Limerick, Jo Slade is celebrated for her elegant and thought-provoking poetry. Her poems are widely published in journals and anthologies internationally and have been translated into French, Spanish, Romanian, Russian and Slovenian. In 'The Artist's Room', Slade teases out connections between poetry and painting, drawing in particular on her fascination for the Welsh artist Gwen John (1876 - 1939) who lived and worked in France for most of her life. Exhibiting the precise and patient beauty of one of John's own paintings, these poems are exquisite meditations on portraiture and vision, vocalising an artist's sensitivity to light and space and drawing the reader into that delicate mixture of anonymity and intimacy which characterises the portraitist's relation to her model. Slade has a finely honed ear for the music of language. The powerful sense of expectancy in these pieces is augmented by understated suspensions and variations in rhythm. Like a well-designed artist's studio, the collection is infused with light, and invites the reader in with a hushed, elegant sense of intimacy.