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Sarah Westcott - Slant Light (Pavilion Poetry LUP) - 9781781382929 - V9781781382929
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Slant Light (Pavilion Poetry LUP)

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Description for Slant Light (Pavilion Poetry LUP) Paperback. Westcott's musical and elegant work is clear-eyed and breathtaking in its approach to the fragilities of the self and the planet she inhabits. Series: Pavilion Poetry. Num Pages: 65 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 119 x 189 x 14. Weight in Grams: 78.
In her first full-length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings - from the fresh voice of a spring wood to a colony of bats or a grove of ancient sequioa trees. Unafraid of using scientific language and teamed with a clear eye, Westcott’s poems are drawn directly from the natural world, questioning ideas of the porosity of boundaries between the human and non-human and teeming with detail. A series of lyrical charms inspired ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Pavilion Poetry
Condition
New
Weight
77g
Number of Pages
65
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781382929
SKU
V9781781382929
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Sarah Westcott
Sarah Westcott’s debut collection Slant Light, Pavilion Poetry, was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize and her pamphlet Inklings was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Sarah’s poems have appeared in magazines including Poetry Review, POEM, Magma and Poetry Birmingham, on beermats, billboards and buses, and in anthologies including Best British Poetry, The Forward Book of Poetry and Staying Human. ... Read more

Reviews for Slant Light (Pavilion Poetry LUP)
Reviews 'I have been waiting eagerly for a full collection from Sarah Westcott. Now it is here I am dazzled. So imaginative are the poems in Slant Light it's as if she pulls her language from a fantastical place; Westcott takes us deep into the natural world, makes us understand its physical urgency, ‘the insistence of air’. She has a ... Read more

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