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Rebecca Goss - Her Birth, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Her Birth

Av Rebecca Goss

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Shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best CollectionShortlisted for the 2015 Warwick Prize for WritingSelected for Next Generation Poets 2014 In 2007 Rebecca Goss’s newborn daughter Ella was diagnosed with Severe Ebstein’s Anomaly, a rare and incurable heart condition. She lived for sixteen months. Her Birth is a book-length sequence of poems beginning with Ella’s birth, her short life and her death, and ending with the joys and complexities that come with the birth of another child. Goss navigates the difficult territory of grief and loss in poems that are spare, tender and haunting: ‘Going home, back down / the river road, will be a foreign route without her’.It must be at once the most painfully personal and the most restrained and sparsely written poetry collection of the year... It's poetry of witness. The language is simple; the images are simple; the feeling is all. It's feeling no one wants to have, and it is handled with immense grace.Katy Evans-Bush, Poetry LondonSomething close to a poetic journal, the poems are by turns meditativeand bewildered, uttered in the quietest of delicately weighted language, as if the failing child and the experience alike could not bear too much pressure or noise. What transformations there are, are tentative and quietly sustained.Jane Draycott, CantoShe [writes] with astonishing success, to which the key is a brilliant sparseness consistently adding up to more than the sum of its parts. Her linguistic tact and her judgement never falter...Lawrence Sail, Warwick ReviewThe poems have an almost unbearable beauty...Peter Kennedy, poetrywivenhoeThe poems in Her Birth unfold their story of love, loss and grief for a baby daughter with pared-down precision and scorching intensity.Helen Dunmore
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-07-01
  • Mått: 137 x 211 x 8 mm
  • Vikt: 91 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 80
  • Förlag: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781847772381
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Forward Prize for Best Collection 2013
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Rebecca Goss is a poet, tutor and mentor living in Suffolk. Her first full-length collection, The Anatomy of Structures, was published by Flambard Press in 2010. Her second collection, Her Birth (Carcanet/Northern House, 2013), was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, won the Poetry category in the East Anglian Book Awards 2013, and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing and the Portico Prize for Literature. In 2014, Rebecca was selected for the Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation Poets. Her second pamphlet Carousel, a collaboration with the photographer Chris Routledge, was published by Guillemot Press in 2018. Rebecca’s third full-length collection, Girl, was published with Carcanet/Northern House in 2019 and shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2019. Her fourth collection, Latch, was published with Carcanet in 2023 and longlisted for the New Angle Prize 2025. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University and a PhD by Publication from the University of East Anglia. Rebecca has worked for the Royal Literary Fund (RLF) since 2020. She was a Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge 2020-22 and at the University of Suffolk 2022-23. She is now an Associate Fellow, contributing to the RLF's workplace and community projects. Author photo by Natalie J Watts.

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'The pieces form a narrative sequence that are variously painful, jealous, hopeful, and tender ... This fine balancing act between emotional and cathartic resulted in the collection being nominated for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection of Poetry. Yet beyond any industry accolades, Her Birth is all about feeling and the grace to accept and move on with life'Susan Darlington, Spectrum Culture

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