The Long Beds
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
Published:30th Jul '20
Should be back in stock very soon
A Poetry Book Society Autumn 2020 Recommendation
The Long Beds explores the cell-like containment of the small hours when the body has no estate but its bed, while - waking or dreaming - the mind sets out on its travels, often in the realms of an old life, cherished items or relinquished connections. Central to the poems' imagery is the presence of a bedstead that has survived a bombing raid, protecting only what was bundled underneath it. In painterly language Kate Miller also trains her eye and ear outwards on grand, impersonal scenes: London at dawn, riverbanks and docks, the corridors of a great hospital: to uncover fogged experience and restore colour to memory. Her poems prod us awake at first light and release us into the morning.
'The Long Beds is a sensuous study of light and optics which showcases Miller's ability to imbue even the shortest of verses with a cross disciplinary visual aesthetic.' Sarah-Jean Zubair, Poetry Review
'Beneath the surface of even the seemingly safest of poems, there is something lurking, almost as in old folk tales, a danger or a disquiet which is never far away [...] collection. It's a collection which is always shifting its voice, its gaze, its locations. Almost like a riptide, the sleeping and waking worlds pulling in different directions, these are the poems which come in between, which rise up to the surface.' Andrew McMillian, PBS Autumn Bulletin
- Commended for Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2020
ISBN: 9781784109677
Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 7mm
Weight: unknown
80 pages