http://www.nouse.co.uk/2009/12/08/arts-in-depth/ Award-winning University of York Student Newspaper and Website Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:50:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2009/12/08/arts-in-depth/#comment-77574 chris Bartle - Director Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:29:38 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/?p=18415#comment-77574 One day a smart publisher will discover the quiet, unassuming brilliance that is Caroline Ashley. Her poetry is both sublime and provocative, immersing the reader into a fantasy world filled with deeply evocative and often disturbing imagery. A poet to watch. One day a smart publisher will discover the quiet, unassuming brilliance that is Caroline Ashley. Her poetry is both sublime and provocative, immersing the reader into a fantasy world filled with deeply evocative and often disturbing imagery. A poet to watch.

]]> http://www.nouse.co.uk/2009/12/08/arts-in-depth/#comment-64750 Angela Hassall Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:37:49 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/?p=18415#comment-64750 It is some years since I taught Caroline Creative Prose Writing. She was an outstanding student. I remember her work vividly; her brilliant images juxtaposed to create a world torn agonisingly between ecstasy and despair, temptation and guilt, her characters half in this world and half in another, often chillingly sinister, one. Her style was too concentrated for her to produce anything more than tantalisingly promising fragments of novels so it is a real pleasure for me to read and enjoy her poetry, a genre far better suited to her unique talent. I look forward to reading more of her work and hope she achieves the recognition she deserves. It is some years since I taught Caroline Creative Prose Writing. She was an outstanding student. I remember her work vividly; her brilliant images juxtaposed to create a world torn agonisingly between ecstasy and despair, temptation and guilt, her characters half in this world and half in another, often chillingly sinister, one. Her style was too concentrated for her to produce anything more than tantalisingly promising fragments of novels so it is a real pleasure for me to read and enjoy her poetry, a genre far better suited to her unique talent. I look forward to reading more of her work and hope she achieves the recognition she deserves.

]]> http://www.nouse.co.uk/2009/12/08/arts-in-depth/#comment-64534 SIMON ALTMANN Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:32:53 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/?p=18415#comment-64534 Caroline Ashley is one of the most imaginative young poets it has been my good fortune to meet. She has a very distinctive voice: sunlight is not her habitat. Her poems are carved in a slightly misty light that reinforces the strength of her metaphors. She is often surprising in her choice of epithets, never hackneyed, which would gladden the heart even of a master of the right adjective as Jorge Luis Borges. She seems to be going from strength to strength as her latest poems show. I would very much like to see her in ten years' time when I am sure she will be a poet to be reckoned with. Caroline Ashley is one of the most imaginative young poets it has been my good fortune to meet. She has a very distinctive voice: sunlight is not her habitat. Her poems are carved in a slightly misty light that reinforces the strength of her metaphors. She is often surprising in her choice of epithets, never hackneyed, which would gladden the heart even of a master of the right adjective as Jorge Luis Borges. She seems to be going from strength to strength as her latest poems show. I would very much like to see her in ten years’ time when I am sure she will be a poet to be reckoned with.

]]> http://www.nouse.co.uk/2009/12/08/arts-in-depth/#comment-64454 Steve Walter Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:20:20 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/?p=18415#comment-64454 Great review love the poems! Great review love the poems!

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