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HARD WATER
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| By: |
Jean Sprackland |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.00 |
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£8.76 |
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£3.24 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0224069594 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780224069595 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
14 August, 2003 |
| Pages: |
64 |
| Description: |
In this second collection of her poetry, Jean Sprackland shows us the vertigo and vulnerability of human experience with clarity. Her poems are awash with water: a flooded forest, acid rain, an inland tidal wave, jelly fish washed up on the beach that "lay like saints/unharvested, luminous". |
| Synopsis: |
Though firmly rooted in the domestic, natural world, Jean Sprackland's poems are thrilling excursions into the lives that we live alongside our everyday ones: the lives we are aware of in dreams, in grief, in love. She shows us the vertigo and vulnerability of human experience with great clarity and precision, tenderness and care. These are vivid poems full of light and weather and water: a flooded forest, acid rain, an inland tidal wave, an ocean of broken glass; jellyfish washed up on the beach that 'lay like saints/ unharvested, luminous'. There is an arresting imagination at work here, one as relaxed and at home in an alternative world of babies in filing cabinets, light collectors or the visiting dead, as it is in the world we think we know: supermarkets, empty flats, the A580 from Liverpool to Manchester. Lucid, sensuous and informed by an unusually tactile curiosity, the poems in Hard Water mark the assured arrival of an important poet. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (Poetry) 2003 |
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Returnable |
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