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Chatto & Windus has acquired the rights for a "seductive" debut poetry collection from a young British poet.
Chatto's editorial director Clara Farmer and Parisa Ebrahimi bought world rights in a deal with agent Jon Elek at AP Watt.
In the Flesh by Adam O’Riordan will be published in July 2010. The poetry collection will include his sequence titled ‘Home’, a series of thematically linked sonnets inspired by objects in Dove Cottage (the home of William Wordsworth). The series of poems was selected by the Poetry Book Society as its pamphlet choice in its forthcoming issue.
Farmer said: "Though only 27 years old, Adam O’Riordan’s work displays a maturity and wide-ranging perspective that marks him out from other young poets. Seductive, self-assured, and gorgeously metaphysical, his poems speak to the head and the heart. We are delighted to welcome Adam to Chatto, not just as a wonderful poet but as a significant new literary voice on the list."
O’Riordan read English at Oxford University and studied poetry under andrew Motion. He was the winner of the inaugural Peters, Fraser and Dunlop poetry prize and in 2008, he was poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, the youngest poet to hold that post.