Red Gloves
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
Published:25th Jun '20
£10.99
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In this follow-up to her acclaimed debut The Met Office Advises Caution, Rebecca Watts observes and tests the limits of humanity's engagement with the non-human. By turns lyrical and narrative, the poems examine familiar subjects - environmental crisis, hawks, hospitals, the sea, barbecues, flowers, Emily Dickinson - only to find their subjects staring, sometimes fighting, back. Nature and nurture, equally red in tooth and claw, power a book-long sparring match between the overthinking poet and the ever-thoughtless universe, between the craft's isolation and the world's irrepressible variety. Gloves on and gloves off, the poet's hands destroy and build, gather and scatter, caress and strike.
'Deceptively simple, quietly shrewd.' - Will Barrett, The Poetry School (on The Met Office Advises Caution)
- Short-listed for Gladstone's Library Writers in Residence Award 2022
ISBN: 9781784109554
Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 6mm
Weight: unknown
72 pages