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Item Details
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BLACK COUNTRY
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| By: |
Liz Berry |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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£9.48 |
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£3.51 |
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| ISBN 10: |
070118857X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780701188573 |
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Currently 7 available |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
7 August, 2014 |
| Pages: |
80 |
| Description: |
'When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me...' In this book, the author takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Tipton-on-Cut; to the places of home. It features poems that move from the magic of childhood into deeper, darker territory: sensual love, enchanted weddings, and the promise of new life. |
| Synopsis: |
This title is the winner of the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2014. It recieved PBS Recommendation 2014. 'When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me...' In Black Country, Liz Berry takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Tipton-on-Cut; to the places of home. The poems move from the magic of childhood - bostin fittle at Nanny's, summers before school - into deeper, darker territory: sensual love, enchanted weddings, and the promise of new life. In Berry's hands, the ordinary is transformed: her characters shift shapes, her eye is unusual, her ear attuned to the sounds of the Black Country, with 'vowels ferrous as nails, consonants / you could lick the coal from.' Ablaze with energy and full of the rich dialect of the West Midlands, this is an incandescent debut from a poet of dazzling talent and verve. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Chatto & Windus |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 2015
Winner of Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2015
Winner of Forward Poetry Prize: Best First Collection 2014 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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