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De-Iced
Susan Wicks
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Description for De-Iced
Paperback. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2006. This work features poems that explore the cracks in our experience - between movement and stasis, the everyday reality that surrounds us and what we perceive of it, between what our bodies experience and what can or can't be captured in paint or ink. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 8. Weight in Grams: 132.
Susan Wicks' poetry transforms the apparently ordinary into something precise, surprising and revelatory. These new poems are a departure for her, exploring the cracks in our experience - between movement and stasis, the everyday reality that surrounds us and what we perceive of it, between what our bodies experience and what can or can't be captured in paint or ink. Many of the poems are about escaping - in a car loaded with stolen meat or in the de-iced plane of the title - an escape that takes us first to the snow-bound world of the central MacDowell Winter sequence, ... Read more
Susan Wicks' poetry transforms the apparently ordinary into something precise, surprising and revelatory. These new poems are a departure for her, exploring the cracks in our experience - between movement and stasis, the everyday reality that surrounds us and what we perceive of it, between what our bodies experience and what can or can't be captured in paint or ink. Many of the poems are about escaping - in a car loaded with stolen meat or in the de-iced plane of the title - an escape that takes us first to the snow-bound world of the central MacDowell Winter sequence, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852247553
SKU
V9781852247553
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About Susan Wicks
Susan Wicks has published eight collections of poetry, five of them with Bloodaxe Books: Dear Crane (2021), The Months (2016), House of Tongues (2011), De-iced (2007) and Night Toad: New & Selected Poems (2003), which includes a selection from three earlier books published by Faber: Singing Underwater, winner of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize; Open Diagnosis, which was one of ... Read more
Reviews for De-Iced
'A poet of deceptive power, who can transmute everyday objects and events into poems with an understated numinous edge' - Kathleen Jamie, PBS Bulletin 'A fine poet, with an eye for detail and a gift for conveying the earthiness of everyday experience' - Jo Shapcott, Independent on Sunday 'Few poets writing today go into [family, its personal ties and sorrows] ... Read more