Iris Murdoch's poems on bisexuality to be published read one exclusively here

"Poems from an Attic: Selected Poems, 19361995, to be published on 6 November, brings together decades of work that Murdoch largely kept private, stored for years in a chest in her Oxford home. Murdoch wrote poetry throughout her life, until her death in 1999. Though she is celebrated as one of the 20th century's foremost novelists winning the Booker prize with her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea her poetry has remained largely unknown. The volume includes an introduction by Booker-shortlisted author Sarah Hall. Penguin, the book's publisher, describes the work as being for anyone who has at one time or another gone soul-searching in the midst of heartbreak."

"Much of the collection comes from a set of 10 notebooks discovered in 2016, when editors Anne Rowe and Miles Leeson were invited to explore the attic of Murdoch's Oxford home, where she lived with her husband, the writer and critic John Bayley, during the final decade of her life. One of the collection's poems, printed below, was found in an unpublished journal, and a small handful wer Born in Dublin in 1919, Murdoch worked in the Treasury and at the United Nations before discovering philosophy, eventually becoming a fellow at Saint Anne's college, Oxford. She wrote 26 novels in 41 years, always famously resistant to editorial interference, and was also a philosopher, whose works such as The Sovereignty of Good (1970) and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992) remain influential."

Poems from an Attic: Selected Poems, 1936–1995 will be published on 6 November and collects 88 poems spanning nearly six decades. The poems were largely private and were stored for years in a chest in an Oxford home. Much of the material derives from a set of ten notebooks discovered in 2016 during an attic visit by editors Anne Rowe and Miles Leeson. The poems address personal themes including bisexuality and friendship. Iris Murdoch wrote poetry throughout her life, produced 26 novels, won the Booker prize in 1978, and also published influential philosophical works.

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