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Annie Freud's new book "The Remains" was inspired by a visit to an exhibition of Sung Dynasty works on paper, and their unselfconscious blending of illustration and poetry. However the book has its imaginative origins in a huge collection of broken household china amassed by the author while digging her garden. Stranger items also came to light: a minute horseshoe, a fossilized scallop shell, a rusted metal silhouette of a hound. These worn shards and talismans soon began work on Freud's singular imagination, and this extraordinary collection of poetry and art is the result. "The Remains" is...

Annie Freud's award-winning first collection, "The Best Man That Ever Was," introduced readers to a remarkably versatile new voice; "The Mirabelles" delivers a similarly exhilarating cornucopiathe Mask of Temporary Madness, Marc Almond, mini-novels a sonnet long, Carottes Vichy, and the most gripping account of a billiard game you'll ever read. However, in a new sequence derived from family letters, Freud has invented almost a new kind of writing: neither "found" nor "made" in the conventional sense, these poems are profoundly moving, and startling in their boldly unfashionable lack of irony....

Annie Freud emerges in this bookas one of the most startlingly original poets to have emerged for many years. Such are the imaginative risks she takes that Freud might be called an experimental poet, were her poetry not so effortlessly successfulthese wise, funny, sly, erotic, and lightning-witted poems all find their marks with unerring accuracy. From the astonishing and highly discomfiting dramatic monologue of the title poem, through love poems of great worldly tenderness, to a soliloquy from the inventor of the individual fruit pie, the reader is both challenged and royally entertained...