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Book SynopsisAt once erudite, humourous and stylishly contemporary, Sarah Hesketh's debut collection invokes a world of frozen lakes, 'snow-spun streets' and people who have stayed too long.
Trade ReviewA voice that is distinctive, smart and reaching for a mode of expression both disciplined and elliptical. - Tears in the Fence Sarah Hesketh writes superbly crafted poems with a very firm hand. Her poems are overflowing with intelligence and scorn for the easy and the cliched, but her ear is as keen as her passion for the right word, the properly perceived state of affairs. We also know that every tiny part of every line has been fiercely fought for and that that is the source of the authority. - George Szirtes What Sarah Hesketh's poems do so remarkably is to string a row of images together in such a way that each keeps its distinct hardness while at the same time contributing to a crystalline whole. They are original and utterly convincing. - Bernard O'Donoghue Hesketh's first collection is a striking debut, abounding in verve and rigour. In stark, lucid language, pared to the bone, summoning images that are sometimes cryptic yet always singing, Hesketh whirls us through a breathless breadth of forms, subjects and perspectives. - Poetry Book Society
Table of ContentsWild Boar of New York The Boy Who Read Homer To His Cat Napoleon's Travelling Bookshelf Coney Island Cribs Genova Tulips The Ladies of France Buy New Shoes Lillith's Lament Saturday Night Fly Iris The Ballroom at West Riding Asylum Bonfire Night in the Old People's Home July The Poet Takes a Walk on Deck Faking The dissolution of the bones of St Cuthbert Daughters of Elmet 'I Have a Young Sister' Green Song Two Views of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs The Tattooed Rose Gardener Waiting for the Indiana Night Moth Garden Afternoons at Same Fusy Warsaw Uprising The Ravensbruck Seamstress The Year is 2095 and Bjorn is Planting Seeds from the Norwegian Ark 23 Kinds of Solitaire Rainy Day in the Drawing Room The Theft of Sybille of Cleves The Funeral Casting Chaconne for Ice Suzanna Ibsen is cold
