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All the Prayers in the House
Miriam Nash
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Description for All the Prayers in the House
Paperback. First collection of poems drawing on a childhood spent on the Hebridean island of Erraid along with the rupture and re-imagining of a family. Runner-up for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2016. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Miriam Nash spent her early years on the Isle of Erraid, West Scotland, where Robert Louis Stevenson's family once worked as lighthouse engineers. Voices of the island echo through her first collection, All the Prayers in the House, which holds at its heart, the rupture and re-imagining of a family. Shifting and non-linear, the collection travels far from its coastal opening, moving south, crossing the Atlantic, visiting a women's prison and a 17th century ladies dictionary. Here are poems of ritual and transgression, safety and danger, tussles with the meaning of companionship and marriage. Bold, honest, imaginative and playful, they ... Read more
Miriam Nash spent her early years on the Isle of Erraid, West Scotland, where Robert Louis Stevenson's family once worked as lighthouse engineers. Voices of the island echo through her first collection, All the Prayers in the House, which holds at its heart, the rupture and re-imagining of a family. Shifting and non-linear, the collection travels far from its coastal opening, moving south, crossing the Atlantic, visiting a women's prison and a 17th century ladies dictionary. Here are poems of ritual and transgression, safety and danger, tussles with the meaning of companionship and marriage. Bold, honest, imaginative and playful, they ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780373621
SKU
V9781780373621
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99-77
About Miriam Nash
Miriam Nash was born in 1985 in Inverness and grew up in Scotland, England and Wales. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study poetry at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and graduated with an MFA in 2014. She has performed her work internationally, and brought poetry into schools, museums, mental health organisations and prisons in the UK, USA ... Read more
Reviews for All the Prayers in the House
'Miriam Nash's work is thematically satisfying, energetic and dynamic. These anarchic poems are the product of an original and febrile mind. A blast.' - Jackie Kay, Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2016; 'Miriam Nash's poems provide pleasure through the variety and veracity of their subject matter, her insight and freshness of approach, and the warmth she breathes into them. Through subtle ... Read more