Competition time! Win a copy of Eleanor Rees’s new collection “Eliza and the Bear”

We’ve five free copies of Eleanor Rees’s new poetry collection Eliza and the Bear to give away.

Eleanor Rees’s first collection, Andraste’s Hair was shortlisted for Best First Collection in the 2007 Forward Prizes and for the 2008 Glen Dimplex Poetry Award. In her second full-length collection she continues to play the role of mythologiser and tale teller, moving away from her previous subject, the imagined city, into the magical psyches of changeling creatures.

In powerful nocturnal encounters silent visitors travel from the dark world, take on elemental form and embrace Rees’s narrators with sensual and erotic urgency. Laced with tales of physical transformations, Rees’s use of fairy stories and night visions radically reimagines the female experience through the psychic collisions of the body and our desires.

To enter the competition, just answer three questions:

1. Name this person
   
   
2. Which book of ‘infernal machines’ appeared in 1971? (Give me the full title)
3. Which surreal tale of twins and show business appeared by this author in 1991?

We’ll choose five winners from among the correct entries. Email your responses to: competitions@saltpublishing.com

Offer expires 13th November 2009