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TILT
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| By: |
Jean Sprackland |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0224080865 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780224080866 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
4 October, 2007 |
| Pages: |
64 |
| Description: |
Describes a world in free-fall. This work presents poems that explore the ambivalence and dark unease of slippage and collapse, and they also carry a sense of the miraculous made manifest amongst the ordinary: the mating of natterjack toads, ice on the beach, or 'the fund of life' in a used contraceptive. |
| Synopsis: |
Jean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in free-fall. Chaos and calamity are at our shoulder, in the shape of fire and flood, ice-storm and hurricane; trains stand still, zoos are abandoned, migrating birds lose their way - all surfaces are unreliable, all territories unmapped. These are poems that explore the ambivalence and dark unease of slippage and collapse, but they also carry a powerful sense of the miraculous made manifest amongst the ordinary: the mating of natterjack toads, ice on the beach ('dream stuff, with its own internal acoustic') or 'the fund of life' in a used contraceptive. Bracken may run wild across the planet 'waiting for the moment/to pounce on the accident/of the discarded match' but there are also the significant wonders of children and the natural beauty of the world they've inherited. Tilt is a collection of raw, distressed and beautiful poems, a hymn to the remarkable survival of things in the face of threat - for every degradation an epiphany, for every drowning a birth. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Costa Poetry Award 2007 |
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Returnable |
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