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17%OFFKaren McCarthy Woolf - Seasonal Disturbances - 9781784103361 - V9781784103361
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Seasonal Disturbances

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Second Place winner of the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Following her groundbreaking 2014 debut An Aviary of Small Birds (`technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak' - Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf returns with Seasonal Disturbances. Set against a backdrop of ecological and emotional turbulence, these poems are charged yet meditative explorations of nature, the city, and the self. A sinister CEO presides over a dystopian hinterland where private detectives investigate crimes against hollyhocks; Halcyon is discovered as a dead kingfisher, washed up on an Italian beach. Lyrical and inventive, McCarthy Woolf's poems test classic ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
84
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784103361
SKU
V9781784103361
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About Karen McCarthy Woolf
Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London to an English mother and a Jamaican father. She is the recipient of the Kate Betts Memorial Prize and an Arts and Humanities Research Council scholarship from Royal Holloway, where she is a PhD candidate. She is the editor of three literary anthologies, most recently Ten: The New Wave (Bloodaxe, 2014). Her poetry ... Read more

Reviews for Seasonal Disturbances
'McCarthy Woolf has a powerful command of form and rhythm.' - Poetry Review; 'I loved Karen McCarthy Woolf's technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak.' - The Observer New Review; `Seasonal Disturbances might be strange, but it's also a brilliant selection of poems [...] It's a collection that teaches you something about human beings as well as yourself.' - The Poetry ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Seasonal Disturbances


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