The Paradoxes of Water: Selected and New Poems 1970-2005

Rod Moran

Salt, 2005 - Poetry - 125 pages

The Pre-War House and Other Stories is the debut collection from Alison Moore, whose first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and Specsavers National Book Awards 2012.The stories collected here range from her first published short story (which appeared in a small journal in 2000) to new and recently published work. In between, Moore’s stories have been shortlisted for more than a dozen different awards including the Bridport Prize, the Fish Prize, the Lightship Flash Fiction Prize, the Manchester Fiction Prize and the Nottingham Short Story Competition. The title story won first prize in the novella category of The New Writer Prose and Poetry Prizes.

About the author

Alison Moore's first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and the National Book Awards 2012 (New Writer of the Year), winning the McKitterick Prize 2013. Her shorter fiction has been published in Best British Short Stories anthologies and in her debut collection The Pre-War House and Other Stories, whose title story won a novella prize. Born in Manchester in 1971, she lives near Nottingham with her husband Dan and son Arthur.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Paradoxes of Water: Selected and New Poems 1970-2005; Salt modern poets
• Author: Rod Moran
• Publisher: Salt, 2005
• ISBN: 1844711080, 9781844711086
• Length: 125 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / Australian & Oceanian